just waiting for the us government to criminalize left-handedness
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yesman@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
They’re busy on darkskinedness and transgenderedness atm.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m waiting for a left-handed month and parades…
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Left-handed awareness month exists. Thats why you know about left-handed people.
A swing and a miss.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
That’s actually a great example of privilege that isn’t controversial or politicized
Daelsky@lemmy.ca 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
My grandfather too