What's the difference between being gay or left-handed?

Perhaps I just went to the shittiest school in the world but "cack-handed freak" was a hurled around at lefties all the time when I was younger...

 

Though there are differences, yeah, I get the point you are making, and it would be nice. Ideal world though...

Speaking of the topic though, all those freaking right-handed tools like scissors back in (elementary) school...nightmare. o.o

 

Official repression of left-handed people was going on much more recently than 100s of years ago.

My mom (who's in her late 60s now) used to tell me stories about a boy in her grade school class who was left handed. If he attempted to use his left hand the teacher would hit it with a ruler (quite hard IIRC0 in class and force him to write or whatever with his right hand.

Todd

 

Im left handed and LGBT!! XD

 

Ahaha they use to say that to the lefties in my school too, that was fun to watch. I didn't join in but I'd just laugh and point, my ex though use to stop them from calling them that though :'( and they'd listen since he was more popular. He was too nice to people.

 

I'm left handed!! Did you know that if you are left handed then that means that you are a lot more creative and imaginative... and a lot more likely to fall into daydreams!
Sounds like me

However, I'm right handed in racket sports... this might mean I'm a lot more logical when I'm exercising lol

it's to do with what side of the brain you are using

 

My mother used to be slapped by the nuns when she wrote with her left hand (she's left-handed). I can only imagine what they did with the gay girls

They're both incidental and morally equivalent, but obviously being any of the LGBT+ groups will get you worse treatment.

 

I'm mostly right handed when writing, but I can switch between both if I feel like doing so, I'm left handed in other things though Nyu~

 

I'm by no means a walking encyclopedia of British colloquialisms but "cack-handed" makes me think there should be some sort of twisted, razor-sharp claw in place of a human hand. What does that mean?

---------- Post added 11th Mar 2014 at 11:12 AM ----------

Are you attempting some sort of Regina George impersonation?

 

really?? im the same but the other way round!! ^o^

 

Will 'cack' is basically shit. Or 'bad'.

So if you're cack-handed, you are 'shit handed' or 'rubbish handed'. You are 'BAD HANDED'.

 

Samurai were not allowed to be left handed...

 

That makes sense. I suppose if it were an actual claw, no would make fun of them. At least, not for very long.

 

A friend of mine is left-handed, sort of. She tried using her left hand when we were little and the teacher would smack her desk and make her use her right hand instead. To this day, she uses her right hand to write, but her left for everything else.

 

Yes, right hand preference still happened not so long ago. In elementary school, one of my Mom's teachers had her keep her left arm behind her back at all times while sitting at her desk to force her to use her right hand. She is now in her early 50s, so that was only 40ish years ago.

Will being gay experience the same half century turn-around in opinion? Probably not, but it sure would be nice.

 

Religion needs to be eradicated for that to become the norm.

Every bit of homophobia, sexism, enforcement of gender roles is traceable to the Qur'an, Bible, and Torah.

There isn't much about it in other cultures.

Sorry but it's the truth, until people stop believing in a "God", who set "rules" there will always be homophobia.

Even people who are homophobic without religion got those ideas from Christian, Muslim and Jewish ideals, the idea of things being "not natural".

If Nature became peoples religion or main source of structure for how to act, then maybe this would be achieved.

It certainly won't happen in my life time, though as non-affiliation rises, homophobia and discrimination lower.

I don't mean to offend but it's true, most womans rights issues in the world today are directly related to religious texts.

But everyone, including homosexuals, continue to hold on to it, because it's been ingrained in society for so long that sanding it away will take centuries.

 

I wonder what it means if you are right handed, but hold a pen like a lefty?

 

I'm not entirely sure but I think the number isn't that high. If I recall correctly left-handed guys are 10% more likely to be gay, not the whole 40% of gay men are left-handed.