LONDON: Social critic and author Camille Paglia has said that Madonna got injured while riding a horse last month because she uses horses as fashion accessories.
Paglia said that she had predicted the accident after seeing the pop singer's Vogue magazine covershoot, in which she was posing on a horse holding its reins awkwardly and incorrectly.
"Riding is not just another routine challenge she can master through sheer willpower. Along with physical kills, riding requires relaxation and self-subordination, an intuitive opening to the horse. She will surely persist and may well triumph as a rider. But until then, let's hope she avoids the facile, disrespectful use of horses as props and fashion statements," femalefirst quoted her as saying.