It's called the RIGHT hand for a reason : historymemes

[-] InfinitiZEr0@programming.dev 20 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I got slapped by my teacher infront of everyone for pointing and showing with my left hand, that the answer I have written on the answer sheet is correct and I should get the marks. Then he lectured me for ten minutes about not using my left hand ever again in his presence. Flamed my parents that they should have taught me that and are bad at parenting. He finally gave me full marks, but I cried the whole day and got humiliated infront of whole class. This happened in 2000s

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

My teacher had broken me by performing the Jane Elliot experiment in our classroom.

My best friend had blue eyes and we weren't allowed to play because he was inferior.

It was second grade.

But this was 1992.

I'm probably a better person for the experience, ultimately...but damn if that ain't fucked up for some 7-8 year olds.

[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

I woulda kicked him directly in the dick immediately.

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 57 points 16 hours ago

1950? This happened to me in the 90s

[-] Junkers_Klunker@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

Happened to me in 2000 😅

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

Yeah, this happened to my mom. She still gets left & right mixed up all the time. We blame it on them making her become right-handed.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

Where are you from, Alabama 100 years from now?

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 28 points 14 hours ago

Same here but in the 80s. Teacher would slap my hand with a ruler and force me to switch to my right hand. She also regularly told me I was evil and had the devil in me. My mom came to the school after she found out and nearly killed that teacher.

I'm still a lefty.

I may or may not be evil...

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

We’re literally sinister.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 28 points 16 hours ago

Christ.

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 24 points 15 hours ago

3rd grade teacher, first day of school. Was writing my name on my desk card. Next thing I know, I had yard stick slam down on my wrist. Got hit so hard that my wrist was swollen for days after

[-] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 9 points 12 hours ago

The fuck. Where?

[-] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago

Their wrist, they already said.

(❤)

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago

Mississippi

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

Ahhh good old bottom of the charts for most state rankings.

Sorry you had to go through that. I’m a lefty and would have probably ended up in detention if they had tried that with me by 3rd grade.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

You know that feeling when you're shocked and appalled, but not the least bit surprised? The one all good people have experienced with alarming frequency for the last decade or so?

I've been lamenting that there's no name for it, but you know what? Let's just call it Mississippi, since the consistently worst state in the Union (and for a while the worst state in the Confederacy, probably) is pretty much synonymous with that feeling.

[-] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Started school in 2001, my mother - a lefthanded person herself! - tried the first 4 years of primary school to get me to write with the "correct" hand (unsuccessfully)

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 39 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

You can thank the Romans’ adoption of the Bible for that stigma.

In Latin, sinestra means on the left side. Left handed people were referred to as sinister. After the appearance of Eve on Adam’s left side in accounts of Genesis, the Christian tradition finds instances of the left side being pinned to immorality. As a result, some time during the Latin Classical Era the definition shifted to its current meaning of evil.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 17 points 12 hours ago

There's also less left-handed people so they're easier to pick on, and people in the past really delighted on being assholes

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

we're better at swordfighting though.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

They still do. But they used to to.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 38 points 16 hours ago

Explanation: It used to be fairly normal for teachers in the US, at least, to 'correct' left-handed children by striking their hand or otherwise punishing them for using it for primary-hand tasks. My great-uncle suffered this bizarre form of correction as a child.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

One of my high school teachers became ambidextrous because of this.

They tied his left arm behind his back at a certain point because he just kept using it.

[-] formergijoe@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

My partner suffered this form of correction in the late 80s.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago

This happened to me in 2003 in upstate New York

[-] mx_smith@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

My Grandfather also had this experience and came out ambidextrous

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 15 hours ago

my dad and grandma both went through this

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

Write hand!

[-] oyfrog@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

I grew up in the 90s and went to public school, so I didn't have this experience. What I did experience was using the shittiest scissors in the classroom, and having to share it with 3 other kids because there was exactly one left handed pair.

Also lots of criticism about my handwriting.

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 11 hours ago

My handwriting is terrible, I'm right handed. I blame it on being an engineer.

Well known fact those destined to be engineers and doctors learn to write badly in school, takes years of training to write this badly.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Finally an explanation I can relate with.

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 13 points 16 hours ago

Knuckle rapping: for those naughty kids in Catholic school. And also lefties.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

My eyes saw only one "p". I was quite concerned, until I saw Catholic school.

[-] calmnchaos@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Everyone knows the left hand is the sinister one...

[-] rauls4@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours ago

In Spanish the right and left are called diestra (dexterous) and siniestra (sinister) respectively.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 16 hours ago

That's Italian, in Spanish it's Derecha and izquierda.

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

That would be "destra" and "sinistra", actually. "diestra" sounds like something made up by an American LARPing as an Italian

[-] rauls4@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

https://www.ingles.com/comparar/diestra/siniestra

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 15 hours ago

Never heard a Spanish person use diestra or siniestra on a day to day basis. I assume that's like destra e sinistra in Portuguese (my native language) that are very rare synonyms used when someone wants to sound pretentious.

[-] rauls4@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

I never said it was common.

[-] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

That originates from Latin actually.

[-] rauls4@lemm.ee 10 points 16 hours ago

Well. It’s Spanish. Most of it originated from Latin.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I know them as derecha e izquierda for the directions and I'm bilingual in spanish.

Diestro is right handed but for left handed I hear zurdo more. I don't think I've ever heard someone use siniestro.

[-] nevaseerius@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

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[-] Acemod@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago

Source?

[-] teft@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

[-] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

For anyone even remotely considering this troll, left-handedness is polygenic (multiple factors).

Anecdotal: I have twins, and one was drawing left-handed from the moment they could draw.

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 15 points 16 hours ago

Get lost asshat.

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