• Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    The term “cowboy” actually specifically referred to rustlers and horse thieves back in the old west. Actual cattle herders were usually called stockmen or drovers, to call one a cowboy was considered an insult.