Comments on: For lefthanded liberation

By: "Q" the Enchanter

"Q" the Enchanter — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:19:01 +0000

Try playing in a violin section.

By: Rebecca Allen, PhD, ARNP

Rebecca Allen, PhD, ARNP — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:13:07 +0000

I remember reading in my high school rhetoric class a hilarious essay (written by a previous graduate of my school) called “What is Left.” (The fact that I remember the essay and the title 35 years later is a testament to how well-written it was.) The author was a left-hander, describing all the petty indignities suffered by his tribe. My husband, who has to get his guitars re-strung so he can play them left-handed, feels much the same way. Me? I’m just a clumsy right-hander.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:36:59 +0000

Blank asks:
“Everyone I’ve ever known who’s left-handed is recalcitrant. Nature or nurture? ”
That’s nature. Every lefthander you’ve ever seen has persisted in lefthandedness against varying amounts of social pressure to be righthanded. Only the stubborn survive.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:33:35 +0000

Left ON!
Sign me up for your liberation campaign.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:11:37 +0000

Everyone I’ve ever known who’s left-handed is recalcitrant. Nature or nurture? Hmmm…. P.S. Being left of the spectrum does NOT automaticaly make one more virtuous. Just more hopeful. Well, that’s a virtue, but not a good one to maintain in politics.

By: Quiddity

Quiddity — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:12:01 +0000

phil: I was born left-handed but was forced to become what’s known as “tool right-handed” (I use a pen, screwdriver, scissors, etc with the right, but go left for other tasks: e.g. holding a bowling ball). I know many people who are like that. (I was born in 1954)
It hasn’t caused me any trouble trouble at all and I’m completely nourmal in everie respect.
Seriously, I wish it hadn’t taken place. Before the right-handedness was enforced, I could sketch pretty well with my left hand, but now I’m terrible with my right. My right hand draws “linguistically” (if drawing a face, you draw an “eye”, another “eye”, a “nose”, and so on; it’s not what a good drawing should be, which would be patterns of light and dark).
On the other hand, perhaps I have a thicker, or more used, corpus callosum – all that data to shift across the hemispheres. I’ve heard that may help if you have a stroke, since it’s easier to access the “backup” modules.

By: Stuart Levine

Stuart Levine — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:39:19 +0000

An adroit analysis.

By: The Bobs

The Bobs — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:19:23 +0000

My best friend and I (both left-handed) came up with that exact same slogan when we were in high school in 1972.

By: moriarty

moriarty — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:14:41 +0000

No cack-handers in Japan? Anyone Dodger fans remember Kazuhisa Ishii? He wasn’t the only one either.

By: phil

phil — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:29:10 +0000

I’d be very curious about whether that study controlled for people who are now mostly right handed despite being born left handed, because of social conversion, whom I wouldn’t be surprised were somewhat developmentally retarded by the process.

By: Prior Aelred

Prior Aelred — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:04:50 +0000

FWIW, the majority of the monks here at St. Gregory’s Abbey are left-handed (including all those with advanced degrees) — we don’t get paid more, though (since none of us gets paid anything).

By: seth d.

seth d. — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:58:13 +0000

Show me where to sign up, and I’ll gladly hook my hand into the usual odd position and write down my name, which will immediately be smeared as the rest of my hand drags across the ink. But, y’know, it’s the thought that counts.

By: WWB

WWB — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:48:10 +0000

In college, a friend ran for student body president under the banner of left-handedness. I believe the name of his “party” was Sinister Students for Left-handed Rights. His posters were all purposefully printed backward.

By: Girish

Girish — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:51:16 +0000

Just to add to your list: “Two left feet”.

By: BroD

BroD — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:54:30 +0000

One of the themes of the left-hander agenda is that some people are born left-handed like it’s something “natural” LIES! They think we’re not watching, oblivious to the way they train sweet innocent babies to be left-handed.

By: Robert the Red

Robert the Red — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:34:36 +0000

Sorry. You lefties are freaks. It’s not your fault, of course — some brain damage, no doubt. More to be pitied than censured.