just waiting for the us government to criminalize left-handedness
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yesman@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
When left-handedness became acceptable the number of left handed people was far higher than experts had predicted.
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Anegro_Montoya@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
They’re busy on darkskinedness and transgenderedness atm.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m waiting for a left-handed month and parades…
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Pride Parades will go away when we stop needing them. Or turn into another drinking holiday like St Patrick’s Day or Cinco de Mayo.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Left-handed awareness month exists. Thats why you know about left-handed people.
The reason people are aware of pride month is because of pride month awareness month
kitnaht@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Left-handed awareness month exists. Thats why you know about left-handed people.
A swing and a miss.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
My grandmother told me stories about how she’d get whipped with a stick on the top of her hand if she tried using her left. Coercion never went away: conversion camps, behavioural therapy etc.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My mom told me similar stories. She adored Ned Flanders’s store and used to remind us constantly how easy right-handers have it (semi-jokingly). I think that was my first encounter with the concept of privilege.
200ok@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s actually a great example of privilege that isn’t controversial or politicized
Daelsky@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Before the 60s, in most Catholic societies, writing with your left hand was seen as a sign of the devil and unchristian. It was thus punished very often. I heard stories in Québec (Canada) where people would be beaten their left hand until there was blood with a wooden ruler. It’s frankly horrible and someone I know did show her scars from being beaten so often.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
There’s a reason that the word “sinister” has negative connotations these days, despite it originating from the latin word for “left”.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 5 weeks ago
I wasn’t even aware it came from latin, but that makes perfect sense. But it’s weird how it was considered bad up until this late in history, but it wasn’t until 1938 that someone patented the smudge-free ballpoint pen. I imagine that smudging with your left hand as you wrote must’ve been very irritating and wasteful for hundreds of years, and thus it became a sadistic ritual to “right wrongs”.
Here in Denmark we called that type of schooling “sorte skole” (black school, an expression from the mid 1500s, where schools were run by religious institutions, so perhaps it’s a reference to their clothing?), and it didn’t matter if you understood the subject or not, you just had to memorize it and do things correctly, even writing with ones right hand.
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blazeknave@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
My grandfather too