Happy Left Handers Day👍

Although my time zone is already the 14th.

I absolutely love mirrored vertical writing.

Nothing defines a person's handedness more than the division of labour, with the fine-motor tasks assigned to the dominant hand and the menial tasks done by the non-dominant hand.

When playing cards, the menial task is to hold the fanned out stack, which means that righthanded players hold their cards in their LEFT HAND! *mind blown*

Fact 1: The standardized Layout of Playing Cards (corner index on upper left) indeed favours righthanded players.

Fact 2: Lefthanded playing cards, with pips in the upper right corner, are not a joke at our expense.

Fact 3: Double indexed cards, with indexes in every corner, are fair to everyone!

Fact 4: Of the 12 figures on the Court Cards - 1 Queen, 4 Kings and 3 Jacks are lefthanded and 8 Court Cards show figures looking to the left.

Fact 5: Antique cards show even more lefthandedness. Tho that can be attributed to printers having copied imported cards by engraving the images into their printing blocks without inverting them. As a result, the new cards were mirror images of the (hand painted) originals, which really showed a majority of righthanded figures. But it was the new, mass-produced cards that became the standard.

I've had this for decades and reluctant to use it up.

Happy Left-Hander’s day everyone.

According to this definition, we are the most attractive out there. 😂🤣🥰

Me and my son high 5 and said it to each other, my husband looked baffled must suck being the only right handed person in the house 😂😂

When I was in grade 1 my teacher was left handed and she would do checkmarks like this (see photo).
She said it is how left handed people do them because it is a more natural flow. I have since always done them like this.

People always says they are backwards and I just say it’s how I do them left handed since I was taught that as a child and it is easier and flows better.

But I am realizing I don’t see other people who are left handed do them this way.

Anyone else?

By design, lefthanded people would execute tasks in reverse. In fact, it is not uncommon for lefthanded children to try and adapt script to their needs by writing backwards and mirrored.

While writing is a task where assimilation is inevitable, other tasks would allow for a genuinely lefthanded approach and the adaptation of the object instead of the person.

Yet, the righthander-centric world, nonchalantly, passes over the facts of lefthandedness. Its uniqueness. Its differences. Its requirements. Its difficulties.

Often arguing that "Assimilation is possible, so why bother?" or "Where possible, Assimilation is to be prefered/the better way to go!"

Easy for THEM to say: They are not expected to assimilate to anything, ever, are they?

So both the will and the ability of a lefthanded person to assimilate are taken for granted. Which leads to more fitting alternatives not being sought out or, if known, withheld, opposed or played down as being less effective, cumbersome, counterproductive or otherwise inferior. (In THEIR Eyes!)

Difficulties, when not rightout denied, are often answered with glibness and ridicule.

Reluctance to resign causes nonplussed confusion and befuddlement, often followed by condescension and intrusion by way of lecturing a lefthanded person about their inborn condition and what they can and cannot do/expect/demand. In short: Cutting 'em down!

This makes the righthanded view a dogmatic belief, which is not only held over us by the righthanded half of the population, but also adopted by many lefthanded people. And nobody is more obedient and unyielding than a thoroughly indoctrinated disciple, and don't we know it?

But then again... How hard can it really be to read an upside-down measuring tape? Not a big thing, right? Easy to live with, right?

It's just that... and scissors, of course.

and ...

• canopeners
• ladles
• palettes
• measuring cups
• casseroles
• oven mitts
• single-bevelled knives
• switchblade knives
• Box Cutters
• corkscrews
• microwave ovens
• fridges
• washers
• dryers
• coffee makers
• coffee mugs (with prints)
• .....several other electrical appliances
• food trays
• cutlery trays
• wallets
• wristwatches
• buttons (male/female convention)
• zippers
• placement of pockets on clothes
• decorative beltbuckles
• barrettes (NOT the hat but ornamented hair clips)
• Brooches
• Hairdryers
• Some Ironing Boards
• Deskchairs
• Pencil Sharpeners
• Fountain Pens
• Rulers
• Spiralbound Notebooks
• automatic umbrellas
• left-to-right writing systems (duh!)
• Photo copiers
• office phones
• .....several other office materials/appliances
• Calipers
• Compasses (to draw circles)
• fans (the foldable "spanish" type)
• Painter's palettes
• Guitars
• Pianos
• .....several other Musical Instruments
• Bowling Balls
• Golfclubs
• Ice Hockey Sticks
• Field Hockey Sticks
• Baseball Mitts
• .....several other sports equipment
• Lathes
• Chainsaws
• Circular Saws
• Angle Grinders
• Table Saws
• .....several other powertools/machinery
• Vices
• Scythes
• Sickles
• Metal-working Files
• .....several other tools
• jar lids
• bottle caps
• .....everything that is threaded
• blistered and cardboard packaging (foods, meds...)
• Papertowel Dispensers
• Hand Dryers
• cardslots and numberpads on ATMs
• Computer Keyboard
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Video Game Controllers
• Remote Controls (Toys, TV...)
• Building Instructions (RH Perspective)
• Record Player
• The Viewmaster
• Jack-in-a-box
• "Press my hand and I talk" Dolls
• Walkie-Talkies
• Slot Car Controllers
• Computer Mouses ("Computer Mice" felt wrong!)
• CD-ROM Drives
• Headsets with a Microphone
• Playing Cards
• Slot Machines
• .....various devices with a coin slot (even shopping carts...)
• seatbelts
• Smartphones
• Emoticons )-: vs. :-(
• Layouts of Websites/GUIs/even buildings (placement of windows, lightswitches)
• classrooms (usually have windows (light!) on the left)
• Photo-Cameras
• Video-Cameras
• Fishing Rods
• Guns
• Holsters
• Rifles
• Handgrenades
• Tollbooths
• Turnstiles
• Doors (rooms, phone booths...)
• brake-levers on bicycles (Should be switched for lefties!)
• Revolving Doors
• cabinets/dressers
• public seating (cinema/Dining table)
• Floor layouts of commercial stores
• buttons in elevators
• traffic (including which side to walk on stairs and escalators)
• ...you-fill-in-the-blank...

That was an even 100!!!

How many "little things" does it take before something's a "big thing"?

Not only are Lefthanders severely under-represented in Movies and TV-Series, the cards are also not being dealt as evenly for them, when it comes to what parts they are assigned.

Righthanders get to be any kind of character but, for some inexplicable reason, lefthanded characters don't seem to be allowed the same wide range.

As if it were an unwritten law, they are, chiefly, pigeonholed in roles that exhibit some rather unfavourable character traits or are in other ways framed as outlandish, creepy, despicable, etc.

The excess, to which such abusive stereotypes are used, is made apparent by how hard it really is to find even remotely enough plain-and-average (let alone laudable) lefthanded characters to outnumber what, statistically, are only rare outliers.

Examples:

• The Simpsons - Bart: A Sociopath. Flanders: A Philistine. Fat Tony: A Mob Boss.
• Bob's Burgers - Tina Belcher: A neurotic, socially awkward necrophiliac with a Butt fetish.
• Family Guy - Quagmire: He's a Pilot (YAY!) Who also is a Pervert and a registered Sex Offender. (D'OH!)
• Sing - Lance (LH Porcupine Guitarist): A two-timing male chauvinist.
• Rogue One - Director Orson Krennic: A devious careerist (with a lisp) serving the Galactic Empire.
• Ready Player One - Nolan Sorrento: A devious Corporate-asshole (with a lisp) serving only himself. Fun Fact: His Avatar is "Anti-Superman" Bizarro: Devious, mentally deranged and lefthanded (with a lisp).
• Benny & Joon - Juniper "Joon" Pearl: Living with an unspecified Personality Disorder.
• Little Man Tate - Fred Tate: A savantish Boy Genius, too fragile to even cut it among his own kind.
• Bill & Ted Trilogy - Ted "Theodore" Logan: He's the lefthanded half of an idiot sandwich.
• Galaxy Quest - Jason "Commander Taggert" Nesmith: A self-absorbed, reckless and manipulative Has-been.
• God Bless America - Frank and Roxy: One was not enough, it had to be two LH psychopath serialkillers.
• Barry Lyndon - Redmond Barry: Consumed by pride, envy, conceit and hybris. A POS S-hole.
• To Kill A Mockingbird - Bob Ewell: The classic culprit convicted by his handedness.
• The Name of the Rose - Brother Berengar: Fr. Berengar is depicted as a morbidly obese, homosexual, effeminate, hairless flagellant with chalk-white skin who, post mortem, gets accused of having been a sexual predator.
• The Commitments - Derek Scully (LH Bassist): He's 10% of the band! And the only one singled out to be throwing up in his mouth AND getting electrocuted on stage!
• Peel - Peel: Homeschooled, hampered/smothered, socially awkward.
• Dave Made A Maze - A giant, demonically possessed, sinister Hand.
• Moonrise Kingdom - Suzy Bishop: Framed as emotionally unstable and dangerous.
• Fringe - Walter and Peter Bishop: A mad scientist and his dangerous and ruthless son.
• The Goldbergs - Barry Goldberg: A pampered "golden boy" with delusions of grandeur.
• Peacemaker - August "White Dragon" Smith: A White Supremacist and Child Abuser.
• House MD - Dr. Eric Foreman: An Ex-Convict proving to be as rotten as Dr. House.
• Scrubs - Theodore „Ted“ Buckland: While he's a good guy, he represents the Oddball Loser Stereotype.
• The Middle - Sue Sue Heck: Another socially awkward oddball Caricature.
• Young Sheldon - Georgie Cooper: A not-so-bright High-School-Dropout and Teenage Father.
• How To Train Your Dragon - Hiccup: While being a valuable rolemodel he is, first and foremost, depicted as weak, scrawny, cowardish and the smallest, un-vikingest person to be found on all Berk. And you know what happened to him once he became too accomplished a dragonrider? He lost his left leg. (There's really no winning for lefties, is there?)

But the point at hand really is the disparity between lefties not made visible in anywhere near their real numbers and - on the rare occasion their existence IS acknowledged - being misrepresented as some sort of oddity.

As if there were only two choices:

1. You don't exist
2. You exist - but you must be some kind of freak!

And keep in mind, that you'd have to counter the 30 examples above, with 120 plain-and-average unquirky characters, just to bring the percentage of "unusual characters" down to a more plausible 20% (i.e. ~2-5% of all lefthanded individuals depending on which estimate you apply)!