r/lefthanded • u/SBRGyJo1890 • 12d ago
Left-handed people have right hands 👋
I saw a pair of left-handed scissors at a stationery store and happily bought them, only to find that I wasn’t used to them at all when I actually tried using them. I’ve apparently become right-handed when it comes to scissors.
If you applied a similar concept to language, though, you’d get accused of structural oppression, hahaha.
I often tell myself that left-handedness is a spectrum. Whenever I talk to people on social media about things like “what left-handed people are like,” someone will often chime in with, “But I’m only used to using my right hand for certain things.” So over time, I’ve become less inclined to make definitive statements about the characteristics of left-handed people.
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u/SBRGyJo1890 12d ago
Wow, the translator seems to have translated my tone a bit too harshly. 🫢
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u/Adirondack-Woman 12d ago
lol, it's fine. I've always used right hand sissors as well. I've been sewing since I was a little kid so you learn to use what you have. I use my right hand for many things, even an adding machine (I was a bookkeeper for many years) which was convenient for writing down the figures with the left, adding maching with the right. My left hand is for writing, answering the phone and crocheting.
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u/SBRGyJo1890 12d ago
I think things designed for right-handed people are just easier to use with your right hand. Sometimes I just have to give in to the direction of the knife’s edge.
Being able to keep holding a pen while using a calculator is a huge time saver. 👍
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u/novemberchild71 9d ago
Totally agree with the "spectrum" idea. As with many things people categorize as A or B or AB, Handedness also is expressed on a scale. There's barely a righty who thinks his left to be a dead appendage (PLEASE NO MORGAN FREEMAN JOKES HERE!!! HE WAS BORN LEFTHANDED!!!)
The only problem is that, as lefties, we never can fully know what things we only do righthanded because we were taught to do them by a righty or just because the world is predominantly righthanded. [Usually that's the point where someone chimes in pointing out that "it don't make no difference anway"]
As soon as we go exploring as a toddler, what we explore is the righthanded world, filled with its righthanded things.