I think they’re Clydesdales, just from the size, plus that’s what most places in the US who still do draft teams for public appearances favor because they’re fairly common and well, everyone knows what the Budweiser Clydesdales look like.  But I love me a big ol’ draft horse, generally chill AF gentle giants and plus…

Alas, this team appears to be docked, because the braid bundle for an un-docked/bobbed draft horse will be much longer, and with fewer places to put the goofy fan ruffle - just for reference I think this is a pretty good approximation (ALSO I JUST LOVE POSTING HORSE PICS!)

For reference here’s a horse of a totally different breed, but showing how long the bony muscular part of their tail is (Arabians can carry their tails high and majestic AF).  There are ways to braid and bundle a draft horse tail without docking it so they don’t get their tails snagged on everything, but some people…

I mean, if the population of Horse Lovin’ Americans were to be honest with ourselves, it’s predominantly female and said females have a bad reputation of being “crazy” ie: adult women who aren’t hyperfocused on children or husbands, but are hyperfocused on DOING HORSE RIDING SO GODDAMNED GOOD.

Perhaps a periwig printed scarf! I have no problem with an adult woman of Muslim faith choosing to follow an element of her faith. Hers is just more visible than say, an Orthodox Jewish woman who covers her hair with a wig, and dresses “tznuit,” or a Baptist or charismatic Christian who doesn’t cut her hair, or has…

I can braid a horse mane in about 19 different ways...and my own hair in exactly 1. But getting that damn tail to look *tidy* fast enough before it starts wiggling is the struggle! The worst bit is you’re like...90% done with a raised dutch braid or something and SHABLAM time to smack a fly.

But if I’m honest with…

I’m not a lawyer, but I’m a biologist married to a data nerd. I can never actually definitively say yes or no, only “We don’t have enough evidence to support that/we have ample evidence to support that” or and he has to see MULTIPLE studies (and reanalyze them) before making a decision. Our arguments and discussions…

That’s a powerful look, and I can see why she wanted to stay on brand.

That would work for an elected official who is an Orthodox Jewish woman, but I’m not aware of any loopholes in Islam where women said “Yeah but MY hair is covered.  This is FAKE hair.  Can’t technically see MY hair, game set MATCH” 

For draft teams, you usually get them all gussied up in regalia to look extra fly including decorating their bobbed tails (part of it has been cut off so it doesn’t get caught in the tack, but the rest of the hair is allowed to grow free so they can whack flies/you in the face), and the “scrunchie” is just a pair of…

I have managed to miss a lot of celeb sightings in the Major City close to where I live (which occasionally gets people in town because George Cloony shows strange pity to the people of this region). But, in New Orleans while down there with a friend at the intersection of Royal and ??? I saw Jerry Springer just…

The actual name means Gazelle, it’s kinda pretty!

ALSO! The whole “How America Magic Happened/Illvermourny” thing involves LITERALLY all the indigenous Americans with their own system of magic, suddenly flock to this white chick for OMG NEW MAGIC WANDS SO GOOD EUROPE MAGIC IS THE BOMB! And she didn’t stop to see how that might be DEEPLY disrespectful to Indigenous…

I’m just over here breathing into a paper bag, it’ll be fine?

Oh lawd, that’s the *worst.* But I’m not sure what’s worse - the communal wine vessel and a dude putting a wafer directly on your *tongue* or the sad little plastic cough syrup cup of grape juice with that little chiclet of bread you fish out of a pile of previously man-handled chicklets. For the latter there was…

Uhhh, pants suit at church? What godless liberal lukewarm spit out the mouth church did you attend? PANTS let the whole world know how your legs attach to your body and give FAR too much of a view of the ‘danger zone’ of sin! (I was forced to go to Southern Baptist church, no pants, no dancing, grape juice communion…

While it’s clear neither Arianna or her stylist have been to church in a hot minute in her funeral LBD, let’s not pretend the “respectability” of how one is dressed for church has shit to do with Jesus, G-d or the deceased. Every woman pulling out the Sabbath best knows deep in the soul no deity gives a shit about…

This motherfucker knew. If it *was* necessary to put a hand on Ariana he could have given her a nice paternal shoulder squeeze, or a little on the outside of the arm action. HE FUCKING KNOWS how to do a “Christian Side Hug” and that shit is ARMS ONLY. I had to deal with this shit as a booth bunny at conventions,…

At first I was like “Why are you posting that unflattering photo of baby Chelsea Peretti, living comedy treasure” and then I read the rest. WHAT. HOW?

I’ve been growing a very particular garden since 2015 (well two if you count the “painful emergency exit” garden), ordering books, and studying up (and stocking up, TBH). Grim, but the likelihood of most women being able to flee to Canada or Mexico for a necessary treatment is low.