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Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:01:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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I find this topic very confusing and very inconsistent, because there
always seems to be exceptions, but in doing a little googling, I just found
this article which drew
some helpful analogies of sexual orientation to human handedness.
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Well didn’t you know that all left-handed people are gay?
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What’s so interesting is that about the same percentage of the population is
gay as is left-handed.... (just not the same percentages:-)
JOHN
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There was a time when being left-handed was looked down upon. Great lengths were
taken in schools to get kids to go against their nature and many were forced
into writing with the right hand.
Of course, society is much more grown up about this now, and people can write
with whichever hand they are most comfortable with.
Allsiter
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Language even still reflects this, as most of us use the "right" hand, and an outmoded synonym for the left is "sinister". (...) You'd think so, but it's not completely true. Left-handers get left alone, but ambidextrous people might not. I (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) They tried, they REALLY tried with me in school. But I'm more stubborn than any teacher I've ever run into, and my left-handedness won out ;-) Then again, I can write semi-legibly with my right hand if given time. About the only things I can't (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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