profound, and deeply disturbing, to have the correlation between the two so easily depicted. One of those things that for many have always been known, but rarely described so succinctly.
My interpretation is that it is rather a symbolism of public image. The ideal of agency that is more associated with males rather than females. The horse got all the admiration for his achievements, but also had to pay for it with his health due to the hard labor. The princess got jealous since it drew attention away from her and wanted to claim the benefit (admiration) without considering the cost (hard labor). Once she took the horse's role of hyper-agency (the bridle) away from him, he realized that he was being exploited and left.
Late to the party, but Alison, this is fantastic! I love how you wove both marriage and male roles such as "pride in work" and "husband" into one artistic symbol of the bridle. Men used to get great satisfaction from our roles. For just an ounce of validation and respect we would literally build society or die to protect it. For whatever reason society no longer respects men or wants them around, and like the gentleman we are, we are quietly taking our leave and walking away from it all. Despite the heavy topic, this is one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. Great job!
MMODoubter Um...boycotting marriage as an unapologetic, silent protest...researching the darker sides of female instincts and natural mechanisms and exposing them...giving men who feel utterly hopeless another option than staying trapped between playerhood and marriage...showing men that they can have their own positive male identity, independent of women...showing men that they can be strong, beyond the reach of social approval...tearing down the divine facade of feminine mystique and giving the fresh perspective that relationships are far from heavenly...take your pick.
Who the fack argues that men should "become providers" in this day and age? I mean, besides conservative Christians who are openly patriarchal in every reasonable sense of the word? The idea that men should work and women stay at home stopped making sense around the time the washing machine was invented, and I have NEVER heard anyone who isn't conservative and religious argue for that bizarre system.
XC Beskow A lot of people are conservative and religious, however, I've seen articles in newspapers how among upper class people in the US this is also an expectation many, many women place on their high-earning men. The result if he ever stops being able to earn like that are pretty predictable I'd say.
Female writers like Lucrezia Marinella or Modesta Pozzo. Marinella recounted that, in 1600 AD, women of lower socioeconomic classes were treated as superiors by men who acted as servants or beasts born to serve them. In 1590, Pozzo wrote, "don’t we see that men’s rightful task is to go out to work and wear themselves out trying to accumulate wealth, as though they were our factors or stewards, so that we can remain at home like the lady of the house directing their work and enjoying the profit of their labors? That, if you like, is the reason why men are naturally stronger and more robust than us-they need to be, so they can put up with the hard labor they must endure in our service."
The story of marriage between man and woman fully explained. The free horse has gone HGHOW (Horse Going His Own Way), like us guys going MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way). The bridle and marriage is the trap.
+Cityman Nope, the true nature of the "princess" is at fault. One must take responsibility for ones own actions. Be it the enslavement of the draft horse(Men), or being a narcissistic cunt(the "princess). ~MGTOW
The real problem lies in the fact that their entire culture rests on the back of a slave - anything built by some one else's hands can be torn down by those same hands once he realizes he's been cheated: the "horse" was given nothing but meaningless accolades for his achievements while the "princess" held the power from them - once the "bridle" that kept him blind to this was taken off of him he saw his own enslavement and left all that he built to go to ruin.
This is the best example of allegory I have read since "Beauty And The Beast." Even laying aside my agreement with the overall political point of the allegory, I must say that you have authored something that shines with economy of language, precision of message, and real entertainment. I am glad that Canada's schools are turning out young women like you.
Horse that bolted ? That was so last gen folks :P The current gen and the next gen men, the younger generation of men..men like me..We don't even give the princess the chance to put the bridles, we just bolt off to freedom before Princess Cupcake and Queen Hamster has the chance to do anything ! Nualaboala is right. Women truly have no idea what they have actually done. They are starting to slowly get it however. What they are getting now is just a taster and a teaser for the full blockbuster.
Sad Womble Once freed (awakened), the plow horse will fight the bridle whenever he sees it. He won't be trapped again. Throughout history men were rewarded for their efforts and sacrifices. Now, the standard is, "We men can't do anything right" according to the TV commercials, news media and social engineers... We take the 'red pill' and 'defy the bridle'. Like the princess, feminists won't learn until it's too late for them.
Remember Eden, Eve and the snake oil salesman? The original sin -- while it's a story hidden behind the biblical parable covering up a crime against humanity based on a hope that amnesia would get that somehow out of the system -- is the susceptibility of women to snake oil salesmen because of selfishness, solipsism, jealousy and envy (and nowadays even laced with a heaping dose of gluttony). The story today is complex. and the problem of women is that they are being seduced again with a lucre. They do have potential to discover their existential depth as men do, in their own way, but instead they are enthralled by vapid concepts. A coterie of men and women that are drunk on power decided to socially engineer a society according to their vision and went the way of lowest resistance to destruct the society so they can make it from a scratch as they see fit. They had different tools in their kit, but the snake oil of feminism proved to be a resounding success, maybe beyond expectations. They don't need world wars, though they wouldn't mind one, because their main goal--genocide--is well on its course without a bloodshed. How benevolent they feel, smug and with a facsimile of self-make-believe conscience Whether women are a willful or unwitting participants does not matter. The repercussions would affect them the same as men, temporarily may they live in a delusion that they won (false) gold. Only a few women are cognizant what women as a group have done and the projection forward is a dark landscape of unending suffering for those that would live through the whole experiment, bare the engineers. There is one saving grace... Even for social engineers, despite their superior manipulation and direction, there are always unintended consequences. They sort of planned for MGTOW, but it is acquiring a form that is deviant from their plan. And if more women start waking up, see things for what they are and discard dysfunctional concept after souls searching and realizing what is truly important, there is a small chance that the dark age may not come to pass.
What a brilliant little parable! It sums up women, feminism and its consequences so well. ......and of course there's no point closing the barn door when the horse has bolted!
YEP !!! Once he was freed of the bondage of that bridle(marriage ring ??) he was a Stallion free TO live his life as he saw fit. NO longer enslaved to the whims of some petty, unappreciative, and EVER-demanding woman-child...
This is a really good video. Obviously well made, as one will immediately notice. Well voiced too, I love the part when the princess is voiced, it made me laugh. I interpret this as a morality tale about gender roles and gender conflict. The princess and the queen representing the human female and the horse represents the human male. This video should be on TV. It's definitely that good and has a message that benefits society. Should we and others try to get this put on TV, or just have it only on RU-vid?
sn0wchyld It's fine. Actually, it's a good thing 'modern' was put in there, just to make it crystal clear for people (women and men alike) oblivious to how nowadays the male population is indoctrinated into a life of submission to females.
This story is so true it actually hurts me to hear it. I identify with the horse and I so desperately crave some feminist or tradcon refusal, rebuttal, rationalization or response to this! In part at least to attempt to justify all the things i was taught while growing up.
"In part at least to attempt to justify all the things i was taught while growing up." Why? If what you were taught all your life is lies, then toss them aside - break all that can be broken and build a new value system to serve your own needs!
And this has been the role of men for centuries, but times are changing and men are starting to wake up to this sad depressing reality. Very good animation and an accurate analogy of men`s roles.
Brilliant! Wish I could read this story to my sons, if I ever get the opportunity to read them bedtime stories again. Again, just brilliant creative storytelling...
at least the horse is free now. And thus begins the great spiritual awakening for man. I really don't think feminists realise what they have set in motion.
I concur with many others, OUTSTANDING. Please make it into a book. I would love to read this story to my son and daughter. I wish I know how to make this go viral. Thank you.
An older fairy tale would have had the horse trample the princess. As a fan of fairy tales, I really like this one. I can imagine this being an animated short...
Sparten7F4 Either would be downthumbing this tale from superficial emotion, rather than from any due consideration given to the inherent message. So, on that level, yes.
Sparten7F4 Sometimes we need to touch the fire to understand the importance of avoiding getting burned. Dark fiction, tho unpleasant, can make a bigger impression on the psyche precisely because of this.
I can't post this video to gab. That's not to say that I can't post videos there, but there are a growing number of videos gab tells me I'm not allowed to post.
Try hive. Gab i knew from the moment that they removed ANY PIECE of even ILLEGAL CONTENT that they arent for free speech. Becouse guess what? We have long build social media where even outright CP couldnt be censored. A price well worth paying for the alternative is censorship of speech and really, pure data doesnt hurt anyone. Nor can anyone but the poster be held to account nor even the poster remove the posts as they are on a blockchain. They may be hidden on a given implementation if you click the "delete" button, alll it reallly does is add another post with the same permaurl, on the blockchain you can still easily check every version of it.
Source the rest, cos I have work I'm not yet quite sure of the field I know I tractor, pull, and bait Perhaps my private eye I'll wield? Up to someone else, I guess. I'll keep at what I know. My MTG has proven me Adept at dodging woe.
Discouraging openminded men from getting married and increasing "fear" of procreation will breed them out of existence. There are intelligent people manipulating mens rights supporters with what seem supportive messages but actually just enforce fear, and likelihood of leaving the worlds gene pool. Procreate. As much as is humanly possible! Even if you become destitute and a wage slave to an ungrateful mother (which is precisely why the roadblocks (child support, lack of fathers rights, glorification of marriage sold to women making it something they feel they need) to such lives are so fierce), nature routinely overturns nurture. We need procreators as well as MG(too far)TOW. We cannot continue to exist without planning for the future, and to do so, we must swallow a little of the poison that ails us. No justice without sacrifice.
Sparten7F4 Good point, however, before you do, you might want to look into the divorce statistics and laws. You're not going to be equals in that regard. Also, you seemed to have missed a detail. The princess didn't do any of the work -- the plow horse did. How does her getting credit for the horses work make them equal? Your version of the story would require her not to remove the bridal, but to get down there and work with the horse.
zarkoff45 I don't see the relivance if I'm not getting divorced. Is it un fair? A little yes. Should it be changed? Yes. In time it will happen. 'Til then people who are against women's rights and/or moderate feminism are bigots to me. We just need time to fix it and thats all
Good story. I wrote one with a similar metaphor a while back, but it involved a peasant woman and a burro. pungeon.blogspot.com/2007/09/la-paz-en-cuamadera-el-pedazo-que-falta.html
