I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less - freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have horns:
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker rationalizes a physical alteration on a horse as a way to make it feel more accepted and less different.
- In plain terms
- Removing a horn makes a horse feel less strange and more like others.
- What can you take from it?
- Modifying something to fit in can make it feel more at home.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When is changing oneself to fit in acceptable?
- Does normalization erase important identity?
Another view
Forcing conformity may not actually solve the underlying issue of difference.
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