Have nothing against left handed writers, why does the left screech about this stuff.
As an aside, I broke my right hand in 6th grade, and my teacher demanded that I write with the left hand, the words looked like sanskrit.
Baseball.
Lefties are the only people in their right mind. 😆
When you take a look at any sort “outlier” cohort of humanity, whether professional athletes, nuclear physicists, NASA astronauts or U.S. presidents, you’ll typically see an over-representation of southpaws. This is not a coincidence.
My father and sister are left handed and I think one of our cats is also left handed ,LOL
I noted in college studying engineering how the % of left handers was higher than usual.
Dunno if that indicates a lf or right brain sort of thing?
I trained myself to shoot right hand because most all firearms are easier that way. Right eye dominant made it easier.
Sort of like a red-headed stepchild.
I have never noticed the screeching, but maybe it’s there.
I’m married to a leftie, and in his family he has a leftie mom and a leftie sister. So 3 out of 7 in his family.
Also, both of my sisters are married to left handed men. Kind of an interesting coincidence. None of the children are lefties, though, out of 7 kids between us.
I believe it is wrong to discriminate against left-handed people. They should be treated just the same as normal people.
Perhaps they’d be more accepted if they stopped their sinister behavior.
I was born in 1947, am left-handed and never felt differently, stigmatized or weak. I am a strong, independent woman who raised my two sons alone, and moved my kids to accept a job to work in uniform for 25 years in NY State’s prison system...male prisons only. Must be the left-handed snowflakes of today that feel that way.
When someone comments on my left handedness I say “73% of geniuses are left handed.” When I get a skeptical look or comment I respond with “But then so are 83% of serial killers.”
I remember reading in a book years ago written by George Will titled either “Bunts” or “Men at Work” about a pitching coach named Ray, I can’t remember his last name, for the Milwaukee Brewers who said something to the effect that “left-handed people can’t run in a straight line. He thought it was “the gravitational pull on the earth’s axis that got’em” So he would have his left-hand pitchers run sprints along the right field foul line because if he had them run sprints along the left field foul line “they would whip your whole line out of shape”. My mother was left-handed and so is one of sons and my daughter. I threw right but batted left.
I don’t know about screeching. But it was pretty screwed up for a long time. It was only post WWII that Catholic schools stopped trying to beat the left-handedness out of kids. Like the articles says, shrinks thought it was a weakness for a long time. Then of course there’s the language, Latin for left-handed is “sinister” as opposed to “dexter”, and look what we did with those Latin roots. I mean things are better now, but there’s nothing wrong with remembering how it was, because that’s how we keep the pendulum from swinging back, humanity loves to hate the other. And left-handed people were the first other most societies had to kick around.
What if you are right handed, and your dominant eye, is your left eye?
18 % of us were born that way.
Left handed people are inclined to be accident prone, in part because everything is designed for right handed people.
Toddlers used to be forced to use the right hand. Wonder what the impact is?
I’m married to a Southpaw, but he recently had his left arm below the elbow severely mauled by a dog while trying to break up a dog fight. He has been trying to adjust to using his right hand to write or eat. Also my grandson and my uncle are/were southpaws? Also Paul McCartney, of whom I’m a big fan.
Quite a list of US presidents were left handed.
Lefties were crammed into righty school desks, leaving an opening for a class action suit.
Being left handed is good.
Osama Obama is left-handed, as is the only progressive in my immediate family (though my relative is very generous and caring to family. Still nuts politically, though.)