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I love being married to my left-handed wife. We can cook on the same stove together, we can read and hold hands, we can eat without bumping each other so long as we sit correctly. So many things are easier for us because one of us is a lefty.
This is absolutely precious lol
I wish you and your wife unlimited happiness 🥰
Ha, yeah let’s turn left-handed into an identity category. Why not, fuck it.
Who talked about identity? Left-handed people is just a group, right-handed is also a group and ambidextrous is another one. This post is only noticing the difference in day-to-day life with right-handed people, that’s it.
Me, I did. I said “let’s turn left-handed into an identity category”.
I’m left-handed and I relate to none of these
I’m not left-handed and I constantly point out lefties in movies and tv shows to my partner.
Huh, was it just me always getting super dirty hands when writing despite being right-handed? I even thought it looked kinda cool with that metallized skin color
I can relate to the bottom left image.
My first language is Arabic, which reads from right to left. I am right handed. As such, my hand gets covered in ink.
Shukran
I get this in english. Easiest way to avoid it was to tilt the page at an angle.
Not hard at all.
Notebook thing dont really make sense?cuz you flip it for the other page anyway
I personally think that its not as much as an issue as thicker notebooks creating an uneven writing surface.
Being right handed, your hand is supported at the same level as the writing surface until the very end of a line, where you typically leave more space.
Being left handed, you start every line of writing without your hand being on the same surface as the writing surface, which especially sucks if you have issues with handwriting (which I annecdotedly notice is more common in lefties).
Was thinking the exact same thing
I had a left-handed friend in high-school that just oriented his notebook with the rings on the right (180 degrees rotated).
Panels 2 and 3 happened for me anyway despite not being left handed
Yes but it happens EVERY time we write in pencil
I have seen lefties get in on their hand and I always wonder why they don’t turn the paper and write towards themselves. That was the hack I learned from early. It also solves the notebook ring problem.
Yes, I know some people who do this and it’s easy if you do it from early on, but learning it later is like relearning writing altogether. It ain’t impossible but neither is it easy
😂
I flip my whole notebook over and use it back to front. Had a friend buy me one made that way for lefties once as a gift, it was actually really nice to have the cover face the right way for once!
Yeah but most of the time if you are just writing a fresh page it’s gonna be in that orientation, especially like back in school where it might be for an assignment or something, so more often than not it would be like that
Binders suck extra bad
If you write on front and back pages, it’s equally annoying to righties and lefties.
It isn’t really because when it gets in your way as a righty you can just switch to the next line and it’ll look fine. As a lefty, it’s in your way at the very start.
Lefties could just indent half the pages by the same amount.
That’s usually what ends up happening but it doesn’t look as good
Fair enough. All lefties should write in Hebrew or Arabic.
If we switch to cuneiform we can solve panel 3 as well!
Yeah and arguably each person is equally at fault if they are sitting in a way where they bump elbows
And who could forget granny’s: when you’re left handed, “YOU’RE THE LITERAL SPAWN OF SATAN” ok, dear?
Go hang out with some Koreans (possibly other Asian people too), they will think you must be smart because of being left handed.
I think this meme is a Christian thing, although Muslims do reserve their left hand for the filthier things, so there’s that coincidence. But in Asia I don’t know any such precedent.
Since handedness is genetic, there is a chance that that’s what she was told when she learned to use the right hand (pun intended)
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39092/how-did-sinister-the-latin-word-for-left-handed-get-its-current-meaning yea, stupid ideas are contagious and latch onto language and culture, apparently. In Italian, left is still “sinistra”, so that creates other fun puns like learning to use the sinister hand.
One of my favorite theories, by no means provable, is that since the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and also language (both of those are true actually), it’s literally disparaging the side of the body it doesn’t control and praising the side it does, which is why so often “left” develops negative connotations and “right” positive ones.
I’ll gladly be a spawn of satan for people who discriminate over something as handedness
@Gsus4 In my country kids were beaten with rullers on their hands at school until they were able to write right-handed IIRC. Not sure if this brought to them anything else than trauma anyway.
I’m stumped old people didn’t die on their stupidity.
Well the plot twist is, they were generally exceptionally smart at what they needed to know to survive. It’s easy to forget how difficult life was for average people up until fairly recently. Like less than a century ago. Education and literacy really weren’t a priority.
I’m not sure if not discriminating against lefties, homosexuals, “colored”, women in general, “witches” in particular, muslims, jews, basically anone non-Christian or even non-{insert denomination} counts as “education and literacy”.
Eh, living with themselves was punishment enough. I’m just sorry for the few level-headed outcasts who had to live thinking they were weird or pretending to fit in so they wouldn’t be persecuted.
My grandma is left handed, yes she now can write with both hands because they tried to beat it out of her, they did not succeed.
Hey lefties, how do you feel about the right-hand-ification of Link from The Legend of Zelda?
I’ll always have “A Link to the past” in my memory, and some other derivatives from that game.
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don’t care in the slightest. Why would I? I write with a different hand than most people, I’m not some kind of suppressed minority in need of media-representation.
No go on, let’s run with it, it’s really funny.
I don’t care much, but it is too bad that they’ve made him a bit more of a blank slate. Makes him a little blander.
I agree with all but the last one. From my experience, I’m the only one NOT noticing how anyone writes while I get “oh, you’re left-handed” constantly.
But the smudging part reminded me of something that happened to me:
I had a maths teacher who always had one of us do the homework on one of those overhead projector foil things and show them in front of class. I had a geometry task and would always smear the rewritable pen with my palms, or mess the lines up because I had to hold my hand awkwardly high. He did make me do it over and over again because he thought it was sloppy. My mum tried to talk to the teacher and the principal, that I as a lefty kind of faced an uphill battle there, so having me re-do it when I wasn’t able to do it the first time was not really going anywhere. The teacher only told her that I needed to learn ways around my left-handedness. So my mum had me do the homework with a permanent marker. No smearing anymore. The teacher even had a smug face on and was all like “See? You can do it after all”. That smugness was gone when he tried to clean up the foil. No one said that he had to like the ways I found to deal with such BS.
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#HeadTeacherGang
Your detector is off.
I hate number 3 with passion. It happens to me all the time, you know, a leftie. I’m a leftie everyone! Isn’t being leftie the best thing in the world? Man we are the bes…
The first three definitely. The last one not at all.
Just write upside down.
Hax
My favourite part is when people that I’ve known for a while go “you’re left handed?”
😂 this happens a lot
Don’t forget those who discover it on a regular basis
I use scissors exclusively with my left hand just to point out to any lefty around that you don’t need to buy special scissors.
😂
Aren’t most scissors symmetric?
Using normal, right-handed scissors with the right hand works noticeably better. Cleaner cuts, and you can tell the handle is meant to be held with the right hand. I’ve used cheap/dull scissors that wouldn’t even work with the left hand. Oh man, let me tell you about scissors…
Funny you mention cheap scissors because I’ve always thought that expensive scissors were more of an issue because they tend to be super specialised and as a result super handed
Hmm, that’s an interesting point. Maybe middle of the road scissors are ironically the best for lefties.
Every time I use right handed scissors I have Soo many issues, the paper usually folds or rips instead of giving me a clean cut, unless I used a certain part of the scissors to cut and no more. To the point that although it was uncomfortable, I used my right hand to cut things with scissors.
When I got older I bout myself a dedicated set of left handed scissors… fucking amazing, I can make clean cuts with my dominant hand utilising the entire length of the scissors, and it works every time.
And those scissors are now the sharpest scissors in the house because I’m the only one who uses them, the other pairs of right handed scissors in the house are blunt af and barely cut even when I use my right hand.
That’s because you are weak. I bet you have a peanut allergy too.
Nope, I actually love peanut butter, goes well with jam/jelly
Vegemite is not bad either.
As a lefty who didn’t get my first pair until my 40’s, they aren’t necessary but boy do they make cutting on a line WAY easier. Crazy differences in difficulty level for a clean cut.
It depends, most scissors now are practically ambidextrous. Some though, have really angled interiors of the handles that make them painful to use for an extended duration.
The first time I picked up a crayon, I used my left hand. My parents were concerned but waited it out. After watching me use my left hand the next few times they decided to convert me.
I was brought to a special Sunday school service where right is right. They started with drawing, then moved on to writing. Eventually they worked on my instincts, by throwing things at me, at random, to ensure I used the right hand to catch. I was slapped with a yard stick in the knuckles whenever I used the wrong hand.
Leftiism exists. Parents think they are helping but it’s caused all sorts of problems in my life.
What in the definition of CIA training is this?
The word “sinister” is used to mean something evil and conniving, but it really just means “left,” whereas “Dexter” is “right,” but dexterous is now used to mean very skillful, agile.
Religion is mind poison and this is an example of the symptoms.
Common practice up to pretty recently.
When I was a kid in the 80s I knew an older man who said when he was a kid his school tied his left arm down behind his back to force him to use his right hand.
Which is strange given that so many world-class renowned inventors and artists are all left handed
Obviously they were inspired by the left handed devil.
😂
Well, it is where the word “sinister” came from.
People used to think left-handed people were demonic.
You can still see it in the italian sinistra and in the french senestre (mostly obsolete)
I’d be careful trying to deduce something from that (to my knowledge not too studied) factoid. It could (pure speculation) also be, that children growing up with the freedom to use whichever hand they wanted at a time when that wasn’t generally the case also had other freedoms like developing their creativity.
If you’d like to know a whole lot more, here’s a Wikipedia page that could probably use some editing and reorganization but has over 80 references showing bias against lefties throughout history
A sample,
On March 8, 1971, The Florence Times—Tri-Cities Daily reported that left-handed people “are becoming increasingly accepted and enabled to find their right (or left) place in the world.” The Florence Times—Tri-Cities Daily also wrote “we still have a long way to go before the last vestiges of discrimination against left-handedness are uprooted, however.” The frequency of left-handed writing in the United States, which was only 2.1 percent in 1932, had risen to over 11 percent by 1972. According to an article by The Washington Post from August 13, 1979, a University of Chicago psychologist, Jerre Levy, said: “In 1939, 2 percent of the population wrote with the left hand. By 1946, it was up to 7 1/2 percent. In 1968, 9 percent. By 1972, 12 percent. It’s leveling off, and I expect the real number of left-handers will turn out to be about 14 percent.” According to the article by The Washington Post from August 13, 1979, “a University of Michigan study points out that left-handers may not be taking over the world but…7 percent of the men and 6 percent of the women over 40 who were interviewed were lefties, but the percentages jumped to well above 10 percent in the 18-to-39 age group.” According to the article by The Washington Post of August 13, 1979, Dr. Bernard McKenna of the National Education Association said: “There was recognition by medical authorities that left-handedness was normal and that tying the hand up in a child often caused stuttering.” In Japan, Tokyo psychiatrist Soichi Hakozaki coped with such deep-seated discrimination against left-handed people that he wrote The World of Left-Handers. Hakozaki reported finding situations in which women were afraid their husbands would divorce them for being left-handed. According to the aforementioned article, an official at the Japanese Embassy said that, before the war, there was discrimination against left-handers. “Children were not trained to use their left hand while eating or writing. I used to throw a baseball left-handed, but my grandparents wanted me to throw right-handed. I can throw either way. Today, in some local areas, discrimination may still remain, but on the whole, it seems to be over. There are many left-handers in Japan.” In a further article in The Washington Post of December 11, 1988, Richard M. Restak wrote that left-handedness has become more accepted and people have decided to leave southpaws alone and to stop working against left-handedness. In an article by The Gadsden Times from October 3, 1993, the newspaper mentioned a 5-year-old named Daniel, writing: “the advantage that little Daniel does have of going to school in the '90s is that he will be allowed to be left-hander. That wasn’t always the case in years past.” In a 1998 survey, 24 percent of younger-generation left-handed people reported some attempts to switch their handedness.
My grandma got her left-handedness beaten out of her by the nuns. Paragons of virtue, the whole lot of them, right up there with Teresa.
Dad, is that you?
I wish this was unbelievable. When/where was this? I’m guessing the US and hopefully a long time ago.
So now are you ambidextrous?
Use the right hand to catch … okay but baseball?
