Aunt went to a Catholic school, they made her switch. It’s not just a middle ages thing
Public schools in the 70’s forced me to be a righty! Teacher even said something stupid like it’s evil. Made me put my crayons in the right hand. Is my hand wrighting ledgable… Nope! Never has been.
I’m a lefty but my teachers never knew how to handle a lefty so my handwriting is also illegible. I had to go do handwriting basics (“colour in the enclosed area of the A shape”) in high school.
So mileage may vary even if leftyism is tolerated. But look at me now teachers! I type obscure commands all day and get a sore hand when I pick up a pen! Checkmate!
LOL yeah!
That’s pretty cool they gave her a Nintendo.
Even better, they made her one! How cool is that to go to a school that has access like that.
Ars Techina headline: OP’s Catholic School Shut Down By Nintendo Lawyers
Follow up: “Nuns challenge lawyers to a Smash Bros. tournament.”
"Nintendo reinvents Catholic school series with open world adventure "
Catholic school is just the middle ages with extra steps!
My sister, too. That was the 80s.
So she’s middle-aged now?
How dare you attack me this way
My friend had a teacher do that in public school in the late 80s.
Wouldn’t be surprised if there are still teachers who do it today.
It’s a good thing we’re no longer this narrow-minded, right? Right?
Left!
No I didn’t!
By using right as a synonym for correct you are perpetuating this harmful stereotype!
How sinister.
Alleft that’s enough from you now hear.
Oh don’t be so gauche!
There are so many issues left in the world…
Maybe so, but on the other hand…
Right, I’m sure it’s very handy to be able to just thumb your nose at the issues.
Who has two thumbs and a nose and is feigning offense right now? This guy!
points both thumbs at nose while scowling unconvincingly
Middle Ages? Try the mid 20th century.
i wouldn’t even be surprised if they started to say this again soon
My father is a leftie and as a young child I found it cool that he could do stuff with left hand while I was only able to use my right.
That inspired me to learn how to use both arms and that really has been a blessing - being ambidexterous is awesome. It was especially great when I finally learned to stick weld with my left hand. So many impossible corners are just corners now.
To my knowing there’s round 5% of people that are totally left handed or totally right handed. Every one else, please learn to use your non dominant hand.
Being ambidextrous is helpful if you break one arm. But if you break both arms you will have to ask your mom to help out.
Will we never break free of that cursed memory
I wish that all of our memories from reddit would have disappeared when we came here. New fresh Lemmy. Fresh clean minds. Erase our traumatic past.
At some point there will be people here who have never heard of reddit, a fresh, innocent, generation. They will not have heard of reddit, but still know when the narwhal doth bacon.
You can never escape from blowfly girl.
fffffuuuuuuu
I broke my right shoulder some years ago (I’m right-handed) and for about a year I had to switch to playing disc golf lefty. Initially I was terrible but eventually I got the point where I could shoot around par left handed. Now my shoulder is healed but it’s useful to be able to pull out a lefty shot once in a while.
The real challenge was driving my stick shift without using my right arm.
Oof. I had to do that for a bit when I borked my wrist. It was probably foolish and stupid, but work isn’t going to pay me for not coming in. :(
Everyone in this comment thread finding out we are still in the Dark Ages in a lot of ways is just such a morsel.
My mom would get her left hand hit with a ruler if she was caught writing left-handed.
Without soap, there was a need to standardize which hand used to touch foods and which hand used to touch butts.
Put your butt on the food. Cut out the middle man.
The Martha Stewart method. A classic.
Also a great way to lose weight!
I am glad I have the freedom to touch butts with both hands in modern times. Too bad I can’t go touching everyones butts without permission.
My mother told me of being beaten by the teacher because she was left handed. It took several years but they finally made her right handed she was born in 1931
Take a quick look at the etymology of the word ‘sinister’ for some confirmation.
Found some interesting stuff, including a dissenting voice at the bottom.
Looks like he’s about to snap that man’s left hand off in the last panel.
That would be inhumane … they would just chop it off with an enormous sword
does anyone know anyone left-handed whose lives have been absolute hell? I’ve known two people like that.
I mean I seriously doubt it has anything to do with being born left handed, but the correlation is still there 🤷🏻♀️
Of cause I know him. It’s me
Lefty here living a good comfortable life.
For now…
Until you have to use a pair of scissors you didn’t buy yourself
I don’t have any problem using scissors…
Yeah, me. The correlation is definitely there.
The only issues I have in life is not being able to comfortable write on a whiteboard and when writing in paper my hand always gets covered in ink.
Other than that my life is pretty average.
This didn’t stop in the middle ages. My mother, born 1945 in Chicago, was left handed but wrote (and did a few other things like use scissors) right handed because they forced kids to do so then. I suspect some places still do. They didn’t even have some tools for lefties. Why do you think the did that thing in The Simpsons.
Please, we don’t call things “sin” any more. We prefer the dogwhistles “disease” and “disability” now.
Switch or receive the switch
Well, my handwriting is an unnatural abomination. Maybe I should try switching hands?
