Bunnies, Puppies and Me

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

imagining my own little world where heather collins and baran al-hashimi are attendings together. heather who would be on edge with this new person but still kind, who would tease her for needing to take a couple shots at things. first day jitters, dr. al-hashimi? heather who would remember having a medical emergency at work during a horrible shift and feel for baran admitting to her epilepsy flaring. who would ask softly about baran’s young son and bounce right back at her edging on flirty jokes. dana looking between heather and baran and (loudly) announcing my god, there’s two of them. heather who’s protective of her people and her workplace and wary of the changes baran endorses full-throatedly. heather with her cards close to her chest, the rule-follower, the planner, and baran the visionary, baran who refuses to let the system break her.