#a VERY lighthearted and VERY not serious post

[softpastelqueer]

It lowkey makes me so amused when people go “imagine if people were still irrational about left handedness like they are about x 🤪” because it’s like… I get the point and I mostly agree, but people are oh my god people still are

Sure it’s less common (increasingly so as time goes on), but I had a teacher attempt to fail me in 4th grade literally just for being left handed. It wasn’t even hidden; she openly admitted to it, saying it violated her “Catholic values”. It resulted in a third party academic team being involved to investigate all of my coursework and regrade everything, but it still happened.

And other left handed people can tell you how difficult it is to find left hand friendly tools, including but especially scissors.

Being taught hand-specific skills is also less accessible, because most of the people teaching said skills are teaching it from a right-hand-dominant perspective and you now have to either learn it “backwards” or find a way to use your non-dominant hand. (This can be skills from handwriting, sports, hobbies, you name it. If it requires a dominant hand, then you can bet it’ll be taught from and for right handedness)

I’ve known people who were forced to be right handed by schools, local communities, their families, their employer, and so on

So I can’t help but giggle when people go “imagine if we were anti left handedness like the 1800’s was” because I’m pretty sure I’m not that old