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Re: Yet Another Episode 1 Question
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:46:54 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> As I understand, there used to be prejudice against left-handed people.
> Even until fairly recently; teachers and parents would try to 'switch'
> left-handed students to be right-handed. I've never experienced any
> kind of negative prejudice because I'm left-handed, and I don't
> seriously expect I ever will.
Indeed. I was startled to find out that my SO (age 43) was forced to use
his right hand to write with instead of his left in elementary school by
having his hands beaten with a ruler if he used the wrong one! The
effects still show in his labored, barely legible writing and his hatred
of writing. Apparently the teacher regarded left-handedness as actually
*evil* in some way.
Kevin
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| (...) Sinister one might even say (for a very good example of the thinking of "left" as bad). And of course right handed is good (dexter). One supposed explanation of why left handed is bad is if you think about troops in a shield wall, and how (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I have a friend who went to a Catholic school. They tied his left hand behind his back for years because they said it was satanic. I believe they get this from the Biblical references to Jesus sitting on the right hand of God; metaphorically, (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl mentioned: (...) Side rant, triggered by Tom's casual example, but not having much relevance to the current thread (hey, this is .o-t): As I understand, there used to be prejudice against left-handed people. (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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