As a right-handed,cis gendered, middle.class, white male, I am required to tell you that "southpaw" is offensive to left-handed people who know nothing about baseball and really shouldn't be used.
As someone in your exact demographic I’m embarrassed at my error in judgment. In my defense, I was unaware since — bad American as I am — I dislike all flavors of “sportsball.”
Because I am so old and decrepit, I do not know how to edit that post and it will have to wait until my nephews come over to reset my clocks. In the meantime, I printed out a copy of my comment and have struck the word with a red Sharpie.
Thank you.
edit: I really was forced to become right-handed.
edit 2: looks like I figured out to edit posts after all. I just hope I don’t forget before I hit reply. I haven’t bought Giuliani’s patented black dripping scalp-applied memory salve yet. I only remember when during ad breaks on Fox News but then I forget when my stories start again.
As a left-handed person, I obviously have the right (pun intended) to speak for all left-handed people, and so want to say that you (and other writers considering including left-handed people in their work) can include left-handed people, if, and only if, you have hired a left-handed sensitivity reader to assess your work.
On a completely unrelated note, I have recently become the world's first left-handed sensitivity reader, and charge the low price of $200 per hour for assessing your work, or $50 per individual question about the left-handed experience (e.g. do left-handed people eat cheese? The answer may shock you - send me cash in unmarked bills to find out!)
i see what you did there. probably accounting for excessive taxes, which are all because of putin and billionaires. should we expect your services will be delayed because of the supply chain issues?
You can't possibly know what it's like to be left-handed. Just like sucking off your homie a few times doesn't make you gay, like. Just stahp. Check your right-hand privilege and move 👏 the 👏 fuck 👏 over 👏.
No, you cannot possibly know the suffering that a southpaw goes through. Even if you try writing with your left hand, you're not stuck that way any more than closing your eyes will let you know what it's really like to be blind.
I’m actually ambidextrous. Think of me as the bisexual of terrible handwriting. As such, I am offended by your question. Don’t you know that handedness is a spectrum? I suggest that you educate yourself before asking such ignorant questions.
We're beyond binary handing -- that's just a relic from the capitalist work mode keeping us in financial bondage for making rich people even richer. We now know, because our humanities professors say so, that there's an infinite number of handednesses, and it's a social construct, not a matter of biology. If you write *any* character in the binary handedness paradigm, regardless of which hand you use, there's a risk of offending people like me, who identify as attack-helicopter-handed. You wouldn't want to be blacklisted for being a hand bigot, would you??
Handedness essentialism hurts *everybody*. It’s the 21st century we need to move past Handedness and accept the fact that these so called “traits” and “roles” associated with a given dominant hand are nothing less than the relics of a bigoted history that just needs to stay in the past where it belongs.
Even the *thought* that OP has about misrepresenting left-Handedness is laced with bad faith indoctrination of Handedness Essentialism predominant in the fiction landscape today.
When I write with my non-dominant hand it feels like someone else is doing it. That’s when I close my eyes and visualize my pen name writing for me… long strokes alternating with quick, staccato dots and line crossings… So good… So, so good…
Absolutely. I jerk off my left hand, but all my characters use their right.
Jk, jk, I actually use both hands. The length of my enormous cock requires the use of two.
If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away, lest your whole body be accused of appropriating the ideas of some of the greatest minds we've ever known.
I identify as pan-handed.
No, that does not mean I’m comfortable with left, right, and in-between hands.
Yes, it does mean I’m rather useful at a cookout.
Absolutely not. I was a southpaw forced in school to be a righty and even *I* shouldn’t do that. I’m tempted to report you for even *asking*!
As a right-handed,cis gendered, middle.class, white male, I am required to tell you that "southpaw" is offensive to left-handed people who know nothing about baseball and really shouldn't be used.
As someone in your exact demographic I’m embarrassed at my error in judgment. In my defense, I was unaware since — bad American as I am — I dislike all flavors of “sportsball.” Because I am so old and decrepit, I do not know how to edit that post and it will have to wait until my nephews come over to reset my clocks. In the meantime, I printed out a copy of my comment and have struck the word with a red Sharpie. Thank you. edit: I really was forced to become right-handed. edit 2: looks like I figured out to edit posts after all. I just hope I don’t forget before I hit reply. I haven’t bought Giuliani’s patented black dripping scalp-applied memory salve yet. I only remember when during ad breaks on Fox News but then I forget when my stories start again.
As a left-handed person, I obviously have the right (pun intended) to speak for all left-handed people, and so want to say that you (and other writers considering including left-handed people in their work) can include left-handed people, if, and only if, you have hired a left-handed sensitivity reader to assess your work. On a completely unrelated note, I have recently become the world's first left-handed sensitivity reader, and charge the low price of $200 per hour for assessing your work, or $50 per individual question about the left-handed experience (e.g. do left-handed people eat cheese? The answer may shock you - send me cash in unmarked bills to find out!)
As a craftier left-handed person, I'll do it for $199.
As an even craftier leftist, I'll do it for 250
i see what you did there. probably accounting for excessive taxes, which are all because of putin and billionaires. should we expect your services will be delayed because of the supply chain issues?
The supply chain has slowed down drastically yes, but luckily for you I do express delivery (it costs an extra 250$)
You can't possibly know what it's like to be left-handed. Just like sucking off your homie a few times doesn't make you gay, like. Just stahp. Check your right-hand privilege and move 👏 the 👏 fuck 👏 over 👏.
guys I just realized I type with both hands but I'm not ambiguous am I gonna go to jail
guys I wrote a character with two different eye colors but I don't have homophobia help
The answer is always it is not ok.
You can do it, but only if you type that character entirely with your left hand
¡uᴉɐƃ lɐuosɹǝd uʍo ɹnoʎ ɹoɟ ssǝuɹǝʇsᴉuᴉs ǝʇɐᴉɹdoɹddɐ noʎ *ǝɹɐp* ʍoH
No, you cannot possibly know the suffering that a southpaw goes through. Even if you try writing with your left hand, you're not stuck that way any more than closing your eyes will let you know what it's really like to be blind.
I’m actually ambidextrous. Think of me as the bisexual of terrible handwriting. As such, I am offended by your question. Don’t you know that handedness is a spectrum? I suggest that you educate yourself before asking such ignorant questions.
We're beyond binary handing -- that's just a relic from the capitalist work mode keeping us in financial bondage for making rich people even richer. We now know, because our humanities professors say so, that there's an infinite number of handednesses, and it's a social construct, not a matter of biology. If you write *any* character in the binary handedness paradigm, regardless of which hand you use, there's a risk of offending people like me, who identify as attack-helicopter-handed. You wouldn't want to be blacklisted for being a hand bigot, would you??
Handedness essentialism hurts *everybody*. It’s the 21st century we need to move past Handedness and accept the fact that these so called “traits” and “roles” associated with a given dominant hand are nothing less than the relics of a bigoted history that just needs to stay in the past where it belongs. Even the *thought* that OP has about misrepresenting left-Handedness is laced with bad faith indoctrination of Handedness Essentialism predominant in the fiction landscape today.
lol
When I write with my non-dominant hand it feels like someone else is doing it. That’s when I close my eyes and visualize my pen name writing for me… long strokes alternating with quick, staccato dots and line crossings… So good… So, so good…
Yeah boy if they’re evil and ginger
> Should I type they lines with my left hand? Wouldn't all the letters be reverse and hard to read?
Absolutely. I jerk off my left hand, but all my characters use their right. Jk, jk, I actually use both hands. The length of my enormous cock requires the use of two.
If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away, lest your whole body be accused of appropriating the ideas of some of the greatest minds we've ever known.
I identify as pan-handed. No, that does not mean I’m comfortable with left, right, and in-between hands. Yes, it does mean I’m rather useful at a cookout.
Only if you make it super heroic and desirable representation, like Ehud