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Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 23 Sep 2004 05:42:31 GMT
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Allister McLaren wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman wrote:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > > <http://members.aol.com/gaygene/pages/blackbox.htm this article> which drew
> > > > some helpful analogies of sexual orientation to human handedness.
> > >
> > > 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:-)
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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.
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 do right-handed are bat and maybe golf. About the only thing I
can't do LH is throw worth a darn.
--
Tom Stangl
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| (...) Did that include beating your hands with a ruler if you wrote with your left hand, Tom? That's what happened to my bf, who is left handed but still writes (very slowly and badly) with his right. Kevin (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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