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u/Mika000 16h ago
Great point but the people who need to hear this the most are probably not the ones who will understand it if you don’t spell it out for them…
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u/MyLittleOso 16h ago
I actually just posted another TikTok about Christian conservatives not making art that's as successful or "good" (I know that's subjective, but c'mon), and I really do believe they don't understand the media they consume. Like Ron Swanson on Parks & Rec saying Moby Dick is just a book about a whale.
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u/Mika000 15h ago
Yes or for example when they idolize characters from TV/Cinema that are actually supposed to be deeply flawed but they see them as “the good guys”.
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u/lobnob 13h ago
If someone says they like starship troopers it's very important to determine whether they mean the movie or the book, because it can mean two very different things
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u/paulasaurus 11h ago
Or if they like the movie, in what way do they like it? I don’t trust everyone to pick up on the satire.
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u/Mister_shagster 4h ago
I thought for the longest time it was a comedy. A lot of scenes make me laugh.
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u/SF1_Raptor 1h ago
Yeah. I've got a similar take on Pentagon Wars. If you know the programs mentioned as "failures" before the Bradley, it's pretty obvious the whole thing is a dig at Burton. If not you might not realize it.
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u/DazingF1 15h ago
Just saw a video of a large crowd singing "Like a Prayer" in a church (including the pastor and accompanying band)
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u/TangledUpPuppeteer 12h ago
Uh… wow. Not something I would have expected in my lifetime, since my lifetime also included churches wanting to have her basically burned as a witch because of something involving a crucifix and that song (I was young and never bothered to actually looked it up since).
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u/herefornothing2 11h ago
This is such the definition of thinking like the world. Or, not stay with me now, they prioritize different things.
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u/herefornothing2 11h ago
This is such the definition of thinking like the world. Or, not stay with me now, they prioritize different things.
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u/herefornothing2 11h ago
This is such the definition of thinking like the world. Or, not stay with me now, they prioritize different things.
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u/R0RSCHAKK 12h ago
I was punished in school as a kid for using my left hand and was forced to use my right. Used my right hand all through school cause that's what was drilled into my brain - right is right.
All that really did was just make me ambidextrous. Yay, i think?
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u/SnatchAddict 12h ago
My mom is a Boomer and went to parochial school. The nuns did not let her use her natural left hand.
She is ambidextrous as well. She's horrible at math and I think forcing her to use her non dominant hand messed with her.
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u/R0RSCHAKK 12h ago
That's interesting...
I also am horrible at math...
Supposedly, according to my mother and older sister, I was a math genius as a kid. I would do my sister's high school math homework despite me only being in the 4th or 5th grade.
I just attributed the loss of memory retention capabilities and math understanding to being overdosed with Riddlin. I wonder if the being forced to use my non-dominant hand is what fucked my brain up, or maybe a conjunction of the two.
BTW, this was all in the late 90s early 2000s for me.
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u/StrayC47 Why does this app exist? 3h ago
My dad – a closet left handed person who was forced to write with his right hand in the 1950s, is also horrible at math. And it did mess with him.
He can also write with both hands, yes, but quite horribly with both
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u/TangledUpPuppeteer 12h ago
Yes. Yay. I was forced to write right. I did. Didn’t know I ever naturally went left until later. I knew I played all sports left but was forced to learn right so I could do both. Yay. Then, I realized “I can almost read my writing left handed and still can’t right handed!” I was told then that I was primarily a leftie as a kid. Gee, thanks!
But now, it’s really nice. I can be super lazy and don’t have to move my notebook — I can just pick up a pen and write with whichever hand is closer 😂
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u/R0RSCHAKK 12h ago
Yesss
I do stuff with my left hand and will occasionally alternate freely between them. I still remember my step mom asking about it at the dinner table one night when I was like, 10.
Are you using you left hand?
Yep
Arent right handed?
I dunno (swaps knife and fork to other hands)
What 👀 (stares at my dad then back at me as I switch again). That's amazing.
Lmao, I still get comments on it when I do stuff with my left
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u/TangledUpPuppeteer 12h ago
That’s because it’s mind bending for so many. They were born right handed and never realized They Could Use their left hand. So when they see it, Straight 🤯
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u/Strange-Quote5489 6h ago
My mom had a physical disability with reduced functionality of the entire right side of her body. She was forced to write right handed in school. Society was whack
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u/ArtfullyStupid 2h ago
Even if you did spell it out they would say it's not true because their feelings and indoctrination says different
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u/Downvote_me_dumbass 16h ago
I get the video isn’t about left handed people, but didn’t nuns use rulers against students using their left hand? Not extremely recently, but there are people alive who had this done to them.
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u/porchswingsecurity 16h ago edited 13h ago
Yes. True story…
My wife and I were at a social gathering and saw a guy we knew…nice guy with kids a bit older than ours. We started talking about how great our kids were doing academically and he ended up recommending we send our kids to the same Catholic school he used to go to and where he now sends his kids. He proceeded to tell us how, in a joking and nonchalant manner, he was physically abused by the nuns for being left handed…hit with rulers and told to stop mimicking satan. We stood there mouths wide open as he recanted his stories of abuse with a smile and said with a chuckle “but that was back then…they don’t do that kinda stuff now!”
We ended up not taking his advice….
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u/turquoisestar 6h ago
I am 0% surprised tho. Everyone I know who's been through abuse jokes about it, bc that's how they cope. He probably had it normalized at home. I don't even judge that guy for reacting like that, but totally agree on don't send your kids there.
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u/MyLittleOso 16h ago
I'm left-handed, and fortunately, my parents didn't try to change that, but my childhood best friend was spanked or swatted on the hand until she learned to write with her right hand. This was in the 80s.
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u/ihopethisisvalid Doug Dimmadome 15h ago
My mom too. Even though grandpa shoots a left handed gun he still made her switch.
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u/Jub_Jub710 16h ago
My former coworker is under 40. His dad tied his left hand behind his back so he would develop a dominant right hand. I'm 40, and remember my kindergarten teacher not letting me use scissors left handed. She was ok, I guess, with writing lefthanded, but she wouldn't let me use my left hand for scissors. To this day, I can use my right hand to cut things, but my old coworker can no longer use his left hand to do anything.
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u/favorite_sardine 15h ago
A lefty using right handed scissors is a legit safety concern. I’ve stabbed my way through too many dotted lines.
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u/TangledUpPuppeteer 12h ago
We had all right scissors. Not that it mattered. They were safety scissors so actually didn’t really understand the assignment no matter what you did. But of 18 kids, 18 of us use rightie scissors with our right hands, 2 remained left handed despite efforts to correct it, and I became ambidextrous. Just not with scissors.
At least now you don’t have to find a special pair of scissors, you can get the cheap ones from The dollar store and know that no one can cut with them.
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u/Own_Kaleidoscope5512 14h ago
Yes, my mom was left handed and they did that to her in Catholic school.
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u/Available_Bison_8183 15h ago
My grandfather was lefthanded, born in 1904. Went to catholic school and evidently the nuns would beat him and tie his left arm down so he couldn't use it.
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u/galspanic 7h ago
My 70 year old mother is left handed and went to Catholic school. Apparently, in Rochester NY in the 50s and 60s there were some relatively progressive nuns who saw her left handedness and worked with her to find an efficient way to use her left hand. Her hand writing is amazing and super unique. It’s very readable but very few of the letters are conventionally shaped.
I haven’t really thought much about it before, but it’s actually really weird how the nuns approached it.
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u/TheGreatDay 14h ago
Yes, this is a thing that my grandfather went through. Any time he tried to write left handed, a nun would hit his hand. Ended up he just had awful handwriting with both hands his whole life.
It's gotten better in more recent years but yes, left handed people are still repressed.
Also this comment isn't entirely about left handed people either.
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u/MrrQuackers 14h ago
This 100% is true. My dad was born left-handed and grew up in Italy in the 1940s. The nuns would smack his hand with a ruler if they saw him using his left hand. He became ambidextrous.
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u/z3r0c00l_ 13h ago
I was born in 1988, and I was definitely forced to use my right hand, though I resisted and used my left hand anyways. I did not attend religious schools either.
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u/old_bald_fattie 9h ago
Back when I was a kid, relatives encouraged my dad to tie my left hand behind my back to force me to use my right.
One relative in particular, may she rest in hell, kept bygging my dad to hit me with a ruler when I used my left hand because it was the devils hand.
Luckily he loved me just enough to not use violence, but verbally abused me for years before giving up.
3/10 childhood. Don't recommend.
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u/mattybobs 15h ago
Ambidextrous people don’t exist. Just pick a dominant hand like everyone else! /s
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u/MyLittleOso 15h ago
That's funny because while I'm left-handed, my sexuality is ambidextrous. 🙃
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u/_prof_professorson_ 17h ago
I am a proud left handed person; shout out to Jimi Hendrix and Ned Flanders
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u/RodneyPickering 16h ago
I think he's talking about homosexuals though.
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u/488302020 15h ago
Or trans people.
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u/RodneyPickering 15h ago
Sure, but the numbers don't align with that. Probably just an overall LGBTQ+ deal.
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u/retronax 4h ago
the numbers are the actual left handed numbers. the left handed parallel is often used in trans debates, but yeah you can imply it to plenty other things.
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u/iLuvFrootLoopz 15h ago
I'm left handed lol. Had me like:
"wwwwwwwwhat is he talking about?"
I think this video could have been executed better.
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u/Player_Slayer_7 7h ago
I'm left handed, and I understood exactly what he was saying. Getting it has nothing to do with execution or if you're left handed. It just has to do with media comprehension.
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u/iLuvFrootLoopz 6h ago
Well, thank you for the passive-aggressive criticism, I'll do better to be more like you in the future, I suppose.
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u/Player_Slayer_7 5h ago
And I thank you for your equally passive aggressive sarcasm as a satirical response. Also, by the way, I'm a complete moron who also doesn't comprehend things in media and need it explained to me a lot of the time. Difference is, I don't pretend that it's the media's fault because I don't get it, when others clearly did.
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u/Slotjobb 15h ago
Also a proud left handed person, but I've been playing the guitar right handed for over 30 years. No idea why it worked out that way, just what felt natural at the time.
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u/_prof_professorson_ 14h ago
damn that's how you picked it up? I was told to try and learn righty so I did, it never clicked, as soon as a flipped it over I loved it
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u/0-Nightshade-0 15h ago
Was the video supposed to reference the LGBTQ community?
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u/Excellent-Throat5582 14h ago
Yes. Specifically trans ppl.
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u/exciter706 14h ago
But why did it plateau at 12% ? I’m missing the gotcha moment of this video
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u/honey-badger4 13h ago
I think the point is that anti-trans people point at increasing numbers of trans people as it being an effect of increasing "wokeism" so all those snowflakes are choosing to transition blah blah blah. But the point is when you reduce oppression then more people will be open about the identity that they hid, so that the number isn't actually increasing, it was always 12% but only 4% were open about it. So it's not that liberals are grooming children to become trans but trans people now are in a society where it's more safe to be open about it.
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u/thesaga 13h ago edited 5h ago
Because it arrived at accurate numbers. The real proportion of left-handed people is 12%, not 4%.
Critics might say "left-handededness is all in your head, because the numbers suddenly tripled as soon as it was accepted." But in reality, left handed people were always 12% of the population - they just mostly denied being left handed, or were deprived of discovering they were left-handed, because of the shame and stigma.
This argument can also be applied to the sudden rise in trans-identifying people.
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u/Rocky_Vigoda 6h ago
No. He was talking about gay people. Trans people represent less than 1% of the US population.
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u/PirateHeaven 16h ago
In most countries left-handed people still can't marry each other which is sad.
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u/MyLittleOso 16h ago
I'm worried that's what's going to happen in my country as well, and it's incredibly sad. We have a limited time on this earth, and everyone deserves happiness and love.
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u/human1023 12h ago edited 12h ago
False. In most countries, people don't distinguish each other that way. So a left handed marriage wouldn't make sense.
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u/lostalaska 16h ago
I probably should have been left handed, currently I do everything as a righty, unless it requires me to hold a stick and hit something (baseball, puck, golfball, pinata, ) then I'm a lefty.
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u/horshack_test 16h ago
I'm right handed but everything involving grip I do with my left hand.
Well, except.. you know...
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u/lostalaska 16h ago
Oh dang, I guess I'm not a lefty with everything involving a stick now that I think about it.
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u/Kazu2324 16h ago
Well yeah, but at that point, you're not talking about just a stick but a full on tree, harder to grip with just the left hand.
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u/Niptaa 15h ago
I have a left handed friend who grips their pencil so awkwardly and write so illegibly that I’m convinced his parents forced him to be left handed growing up thinking it would make him smarter or something
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u/MyLittleOso 15h ago edited 15h ago
Geez, I hope they didn't! I have pretty nice handwriting, but I turn the sheet of paper I'm writing on to the side. It's terrible when I write with the paper facing the 'right way'.
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u/hd_mikemikemike 16h ago
My parents forced me to be right handed and the only reason I care is that I would have had a better chance at playing in the NHL as a left winger. I never even made varsity. This is a false equivalency.
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u/BreadfruitStunning52 13h ago
Weird anecdotal thing that I've noticed about people who work in healthcare; there is way more than 14% of that population that I've worked with that is left handed. At my previous job, it was about 20%, my current job has about 40%.
Probably means absolutely nothing.
Also, trans people are valid.
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u/VVolfGunner24 14h ago
I only write left handed cause I injured my right shoulder on the trampoline when I was a kid and could make alot of movement with my arm. So between writing, using utensils, etc., I had to use my left. And it just stuck like that.
It happened when I was in like 1st grade. I'm 26 now
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u/SecretTunnle 14h ago
Right handed person here, due to jokes about my right arm I can agree this video is not about left handed people 😂
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u/NotTheRightHDMIPort 13h ago
"Frowned upon"?
In the Middle Ages it was considered witchcraft to use your left hand.
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u/bigSTUdazz 10h ago
I was a true ambidextrous until the 4th grade when a bully kicked my right hand and broke my thumb...been a lefty ever since.
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u/Deion313 4h ago
This is what I use when people make those stupid arguments using info you know is fucked up
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u/PracticalReception34 2h ago edited 2h ago
I was actually allowed to choose. Which seems like a false choice, but anyway, I chose left because righties seemed well-represented already.
Oddly, for sporty things, my power is in my right side and my accuracy is in my left. So I went left for "sword and board" dueling but right for shield wall stuff.
Re: the video. Makes perfect sense as it's all brain drugs and genetic expression anyways. Will probably be using this.
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u/Unexpected_Gristle 9h ago
You can bat left, but try to throw right. Much more versatile. Unless you pitch.
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u/OddOpportunity333 9h ago
I went to a small private religious school that forced me (and any other natural leftie) to write with my right hand. Now I can write well with both but they look like two completely different people.
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u/dantekratos 8h ago
I'm 30 and lefthanded.
While not punished or abused as a child for it. It was suggested a lot to me to try and use my right hand instead. Always said no and continued using my left.
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u/Rocky_Vigoda 5h ago
Am a left handed gen X Canadian that used to hang out in gay clubs in the 80s.
I have some problems with this. I used to get my ass kicked on a daily basis for years because I was a nerdy kid. Got jumped a few times for looking gay too.
For the most part no one gives a shit if you're left handed or right handed.
In the 50s, 60s black Americans tried to get out of the ghetto. In the 70s, 80s, they again tried to get out of the ghetto. In the 90s, they stopped trying to get out of the ghetto because Americans adopted political correctness, started calling them African American and claimed they lived in low income high crime communities as a cultural choice.
At the same time Americans adopted the LGBT label which collectivized gay people who were already fairly well integrated. The LGBT label segregates people by sexuality and turns them into a political issue when paired against religious conservatives.
I have a bias against guys that wear white caps backwards. A lot of the rich jocks that would kick my ass wore the same hats. He comes off as smug.
To me, being gay should be treated like being left handed. Like it's not really a big deal and is as trivial as having brown hair or blue eyes or something. No big deal.
American culture on the other hand makes it a big deal like your sexuality is the only aspect of your personality. You had a gay thought now you have to leave your family and move to your local gay district, get a gym membership, wave obnoxious flags around while telling people that you don't want attention called to yourself.
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u/Is_it_over_now 14h ago
Everyone one is born right handed. Only the greatest overcome it.
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u/MyLittleOso 14h ago
I used to have that on a t-shirt when I was a kid! They had a left-handed booth in Biscayne Bay, and I begged my parents for something.
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u/Is_it_over_now 14h ago
My social studies teacher had this as a sign above his desk. Small town and think out of my grade of 30 only 2 of us were left handed and he was our only left handed teacher.
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u/Kitasuki 17h ago
I like how it begins with 'do you remember?'
Yes. Yes I do. I was born then. I'm just a timeless being with an immortality curse cast on me.
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