Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Perspective on homosexuality Message-ID: <1197@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 12:15:39 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.1197 Posted: Mon Dec 10 12:15:39 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 03:48:48 EST References: <3715@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 20 In fact, when people talk about manual agility, they say via Latin one has two right hands, the Latin for "right" being DEXTER. Except for my sister, my whole family is left-handed. Lefthandeness was deviant as recently as the preWW II era: my mother was educated by nuns through 8th grade, who discouraged use of the left hand by smashing kids' knuckles with rulers at every infraction. The result is my mother has "two right hands": she's ambidextrous but her handwriting's "terrible", as she describes it. Writer James Baldwin's preacher father thought his son was claimed by Satan because James' hairline was marked by a prominent widow's peak. James was also gay. For years I wasn't even aware the human-made world is set up for righties: I only felt a vague awkwardness when I had to open a door, etc. It must be me, I'm a klutz, I'd think. From the sinister keyboard of Ron Rizzo