#Left-Handedness

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[timbit-robin-art]

I call this collection “left-handed-coded characters.”

[1001paperboxes]

Cameras are my thing. The traditional camera has all the buttons on the right-hand side, so either I'm holding it and controlling it with my wrong hand, or I'm literally making it hard to see what I'm taking while I'm fiddling with the controls. Like, the swap to phone cameras was HUGE for me because the button is in the middle. (Though ask me about the size of smartphones increasing vs. being someone with tiny hands. ToT) I definitely had a shop teacher in high school who got an eye injury because the exhaust on his tools was positioned with right-handed use in mind and. uh. his safety glasses did their best. But yes. there's a lot of tiny things that are infrastructurally designed for a right-handed audience and. are just a little bit worse for the other ten percent of us. ToT

and my personal favorite:

i love getting validation as a lefty but also learning about new fun ways it continues to suck

[fuzzsimp]

Current desktop setup :3

[verthrogic]

Needless to say, Thel’s vacation on earth was quite the experience.

[hypothermiatapes]

What do you think about the headcanon that Tom Riddle is left handed by nature, but forced to write with his right?

I’m all for it and it would make sense since left handedness has been associated with negative connotations historically (which is so odd because who actually cares?).

Often in the past it’s been associated with the devil, sin, weakness, uncleanliness, and other things like that, mostly negative. What I’m about to bring up is from short research so if I get something wrong please correct me since I haven’t been Christian in several years. Tom grew up in the 30s in Britain where Christianity was the most prevalent religion and we also know the time wasn’t accepting of those different.

The Bible puts a huge emphasis on the right hand due to it being the dominant hand of about 90% of the population. Gods right hand side is the most honorable position to be placed, it representing strength, and while his left hand side is still an honorable position it’s not like his right hand side. People depicted in the Bible who are left handed are few, but they’re often given very positive connotations.

Now, if the Bible is accepting of it why would it be considered sinful? That’s because left handedness isn’t the norm, isn’t the most honorable. People will take this knowledge and decide that means the left hand is the right hands opposite, that means it’s weak and dishonorable. And what is the most dishonorable thing in the Bible? Sin, the devil, things like that.

In 19th century Europe left handedness was associated with homosexuality, and I do not need to elaborate on how negative of a connotation that is during the time. While that was the 1800s, people in the 1930s will likely still associate it with that. In Scotland it’s considered unlucky to meet a left handed person before a journey, they called the Roman Catholics left-footers, and there’s a saying to describe an unlucky person which is: he must have been baptized by a left-handed Priest.

Throughout history there has been a large pressure on children to write with their right hands because it’s preferable. In the United States in the early 20th/21st (study I’m using only said earlier this century so I’m guessing) century it was said left handedness was a disease they needed to cure and they would hit the knuckles of kids who were caught using the left hand.

The English word for left originates from the Anglo-Saxon word lyft which means weak or broken. The Oxford English Dictionary defines left-handed as meaning crippled, defective, awkward, clumsy and inapt and is associated with stuff like underhand dealings. Left handed “compliments” are often insults like a “left-handed marriage” means an adulterous sexual liaison.

Anyways, I could go on for hours about this so I’ll leave the study I used here.

I think Tom being left handed would fit his character extremely well considering how he’s depicted as violent, scary, prideful, greedy and manipulative (sinful in other words). Dumbledore says he was bad from the start and almost acts like he was an omen which goes well with connotations attached to being left-handed.

Now, I can see him being forced to write right-handed since this is the 1930s we’re talking about, but I refuse to believe he just went with it. He likely practiced with his left hand in private and the moment he went to Hogwarts switched (did you know the left hand was also associated with witchcraft?). He also probably used it as evidence as to why he was better than everyone else.

[phregnancy]

back in the day there was this popular youtuber post that had a message that essentially said “your heroes have been through so much and they succeeded, you can too” and had all these youtubers and listed their biggest trouble that they overcame in life and some peoples were abuse and others were diseases like addiction and cancer and generally listed a bunch of harrowing experiences. phil’s was that he was bullied, which was one of the ‘lighter’ topics listed. and then dan’s was that he’s left handed. all of those traumatic and difficult topics and dan’s was that he has to get special scissors for his left hand dominance.

[roseandgold137]

Very sketchy bc I drew this while walking my dog and on my phone but <3 they can fuck later Tim needs data NOW

[slime-crafters]

I just remembered left-handed controls are an option in some games, but as a left-handed gamer, I have never used them. I find it so strange because I also don't make left-handed characters, even if I have the ability to because it seems so awkward. I'm curious as to how other lefties play games, so please only vote if you are a left-handed/predominantly left-handed person

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[athelind]

Grew up in Southern California in the 1970s. Learned cursive in elementary school¹, learned to type in high school.

¹I sort of learned cursive -- I'm left-handed, and lefties had to Ginger Rogers² our way through the lessons everyone else got.

²Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. ― Ann Richards

My 11th graders can’t do either.

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[nevermore-headcanons]

Oooooo a headcanon confessions blog for Nevermore the webcomic, those are fun. You people like those. Hopefully. I like getting asks

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left handedness

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[q8qwertyuiop8p]

Wait a second he writes with his right hand confirmed, but now he is playing with a lighter and I don't think you can do that with your non-dominant hand, I think he actually is ambidextrous

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[ivorysodapop]

Lefties

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[magnetothemagnificent]

Being left-handed is fun because you notice more how clothing companies cut corners.

For example. I bought a new pair of pants yesterday. I was very excited because on a quick glance, the pockets had an extra inner zipper pocket. I'm always after extra pockets. Well. I wore those pants today, and to my dismay only the *right* pocket had that extra zippered pocket. The left didn't. Because the company operated on the assumption that people would only really use and notice the right side.

This comes up a *lot* with pockets. The amount of clothes I've seen or own with only the right side having real or bonus pockets..... it's so annoying.

It's really a minor kvetch in the grand scheme of things but it's something that really bugs me.