Are you left-handed?

[WinGate]

Today, while getting ready, I was thinking of this thing... that most discriminated persons in this world are not blacks, nor dalits nor even slaves, they are the left handed people

And while thinking I found that left-hand people are being discriminated in all sorts of way. Some of examples as proof are:-

1) Kick of bikes or scooters are always on right side & that's because the inventor must have been right-handed & thought since right side is more powerful so kick should be in right side, completely ignoring the lefties.

2) A very common example is screw. The screws which are available in market are such that they unscrew in right direction & screw in left direction, that's also because its more natural for righties to unscrew in right direction but its visa-versa for lefties. Washing machines timers also have same problem.

3) This is my personal example, my microwave oven & many which I have seen have control panel on their right, obviously, so that person standing in front of it can operate it easily(of course that is valid only for righties)

4) See the keyboard by which you are typing, there are more keys provided to right hand side in the form of home keys etc. & numeric keys.

Who knows some where some one may have died just because of this discrimination?


So, tell me all you lefties-- the left handed people, all the discrimination you may have faced by this majorly right handed world?

And righties --- Defence yourself & give answers to our allegations.


Also, answer this small poll.

 

[Spartan Erik]

Although I'm left handed, but oddly enough I've never been able to use many left-hand-exclusive things, i.e. left handed scissors

 

[noerrorsfound]

My school has an "old building" and a "new building". The desks in the old building are that old kind where you can only get in from one side (the left) and the place to rest your arm goes along the right. These were uncomfortable for my brother, because he's left handed and while he wrote, his left arm and elbow awkwardly hung off the left side, which had been shortened so people could get in the desk easier. He ended up getting a new desk from the new building to sit in. :biggrin:

My brother uses his right hand when using a computer mouse, though. I think he just learned it that way, and I don't think he ever had any difficulty. If he used his left hand, he'd have to not only switch the mouse over to the other side while using computers at school, but also ask an administrator to switch the mouse buttons in the settings, since they restrict students' accounts from accessing any settings. Hopefully no school would refuse to switch the mouse buttons for left-handed people...

 

[tam-iam]

Although I'm left handed, but oddly enough I've never been able to use many left-hand-exclusive things, i.e. left handed scissors

I can't use left handed scissors either. It's because I learned on right handed ones and you have to pull in with your thumb while cutting to make them work. When I use lefty scissors, I'm in such a habit of pulling in with my thumb that it causes the scissors to open up and not cut. :happysad:

I saw on TV once that left handed people statistically speaking, die younger because they are more prone to equipment related accidents. I've since heard that that is an urban myth, so who knows. Most things in this world are designed for right handed people.

 

[jsobeck]

Buying guitars. Your selection is limited from at least a thousand down to about a hundred, maybe a little more. Not to mention, the prices are higher, sometimes by several hundred.

 

[Archkronos]

I might be a righty, but how hard is it to press buttons on a microwave? Come on!

 

[blitzkrieg]

It isn't discrimination, it's only productivity. There are some dimensions and settings that can fit +90% of the population. Why would they switch everything? to hear right-handed people call at discrimination? Would you be ready to pay the extra-cost for creating and organizing something for left handed people? If you are, then I'm sure some company can do something for you but if you want to pay the lower price possible, companies just can't afford using other machines to create other products.

 

[Micro]

If he used his left hand, he'd have to not only switch the mouse over to the other side while using computers at school, but also ask an administrator to switch the mouse buttons in the settings, since they restrict students' accounts from accessing any settings. Hopefully no school would refuse to switch the mouse buttons for left-handed people...

At our school they check a box and any computer that person goes on will get left handed settings.

 

[nomore]

right handed
my school have a 2 persons table so it dosnt metter

NoMore

 

[noerrorsfound]

I might be a righty, but how hard is it to press buttons on a microwave? Come on!

Nobody said it was hard. It's just inconvenient. A right handed person can stand in front of a microwave and push buttons but for a left hander they awkwardly move their hand across to the other side, or just stand more to the right.

I frequently use my left hand to open the refrigerator. The handle is on the right side, but you can't open it while standing in front so it makes sense to just stand to the right of it and use my left hand (closest) to pull it open, and let it swing out to the left.

 

[Archkronos]

Nobody said it was hard. It's just inconvenient. A right handed person can stand in front of a microwave and push buttons but for a left hander they awkwardly move their hand across to the other side, or just stand more to the right.

I frequently use my left hand to open the refrigerator. The handle is on the right side, but you can't open it while standing in front so it makes sense to just stand to the right of it and use my left hand (closest) to pull it open, and let it swing out to the left.

Heh, the handle on mine's on the left.

 

[Zepheria]

I use my right hand more then my left hand but who cares if your a righty or a lefty? Someone wont go up to you and say, "You suck cause ur a lefty!".

 

[Micro]

Yes. Yes they will.

 

[cointoss]

There is an excellent website idea for someone with the drive to get it started. I imagine there are very few website that cater to left-handers. You'd corner the market. At least until you got popular, and then millions of stores would pop up... But hey, at least can say you had a (left) hand in changing the world!

 

[KowKing]

Everyone is born right handed, some people just overcome it.

;-)

I'm left handed.

 

[legendphil]

hao!

I was born left-handed but was trained to use my right. I used to hold my spoon on the left, my pen on the left ... everything was just about my left.. until I entered elementary. It was a disadvantage because most chairs then had armchairs for right handed people. Next was in high school, I had to use my right hand to strum the guitar just like most people do, because my extra conservative and traditional trainor asked me to do so (or else I get hit). Now I can use both my right and left quite well.

P.S. Not all people are born right-handed. As far as I can remember thumb-sucking while inside the womb has something to do with it plus PSYCHOLOGY.

 

[xhostloverx]

My school has an "old building" and a "new building". The desks in the old building are that old kind where you can only get in from one side (the left) and the place to rest your arm goes along the right. These were uncomfortable for my brother, because he's left handed and while he wrote, his left arm and elbow awkwardly hung off the left side, which had been shortened so people could get in the desk easier.

That applies to me, all three schools I have been only have desks for right-handed persons.

 

[Axe_Swipe]

I'm one of those odd people who write left-handed, but do almost everything else right-handed.

I think this is because I learned my initial writing skills while going to an International School in Saudia Arabia where we were required to learn Arabic in addition to English and Arabic is written from right-to-left instead of left-to-right (wouldn't be able to write any Arabic to save my life now as that was 30 years ago).

I used to use the mouse on the left side, but learned to use it on the right side after having to share a computer with a bunch of righties, and now the right handed mouse is more natural to me.
Edit:

I use my right hand more then my left hand but who cares if your a righty or a lefty? Someone wont go up to you and say, "You suck cause ur a lefty!".

Not in those words they won't, but there are still crotchety old teachers living in the dark ages out there who have a tissy when kids try to do things left handed because right-handed is the "correct" way.

 

[prasad]

I am a left handed person.... always have been!

 

[YamiKaitou]

Right-handed, but I play hockey using my left-hand