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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: Perspective on homosexuality
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 12:15:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 12:15:39 1984
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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