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November 2007 • VOLUME 27 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine 
It’s a man’s world, that’s what’s wrong... by Luis Pine
Two recent articles from Horses for LIfe inspired me to write what follows. One was about paradigm shifting relating to the human/horse relationship, which seems very pertinent as it relates to present and timeless ethical and social issues. Another was on “riding feel” by Catherine Iselin with one of many insightful comments on our times and which I’ll use as a departing point for this article, it reads: “ Our world is denying our most deep desire and ignoring parts of ourselves. One has to look at the level of bad health in the world, obesity, depressions, etc. and various illnesses to realize that men and women are not fully joyful and fulfilled and that they require too much medication, support, treatment in order to carry on a job they may not really love... We go wrong when we are unfulfilled and it shows. Same for the horses.” Most will agree that our world is out of balance. Maybe it always has been like this on some level since we’re all here to learn, only now we see it constantly and immediately because of the technology or because there are more of us, who knows? The point is that there is a lot of unbalance which is another word for dis-ease, dysfunction...all of which our relationship with horses mirrors. I see the main source of that unbalance in our, almost exclusive, expression of masculine attitudes to the neglecting of feminine ones, as we relate to everything from mortality to everyday petty frustrations.
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