Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sftig.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxm!sftig!rjl From: rjl@sftig.UUCP (R.J.Lewis) Newsgroups: net.med,net.kids,net.social Subject: Re: Changing Left-handedness to Right-handedness Message-ID: <567@sftig.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 09:15:46 EDT Article-I.D.: sftig.567 Posted: Wed Aug 21 09:15:46 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 13:58:35 EDT References: <127@unc.unc.UUCP> <1080@ihlpg.UUCP> <165@ho95e.UUCP> <1082@dual.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Summit, NJ Lines: 55 Xref: watmath net.med:2140 net.kids:1711 net.social:902 > <*munch*> > > => > A friend's preschooler always seemed to prefer using his left hand. > => > His mother has been trying to change him into a right hander. > => > => I really get annoyed at this type of thinking - it says that > => "different from \"everybody else\"" is inherently bad. So what if the > => kid is left-handed and other kids aren't? Nothing wrong with that! > => It reminds me of people who dislike blacks because of cultural traits > => different from their own, or even because they have different-shaped > => bodies. Disgusting. > => > => Besides, I'm enough of a klutz being naturally right-handed - I can't > => imagine how clumsy I'd be is I had to do everything with my > => less-coordinated hand. > => > => ## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs > > Minor flame here: While I wholeheartedly agree with the points Bill makes in > his first paragraph, I take exception to his allusion (not an original idea, > actually . . . in fact, it seems quite popular) that left-handed people are > clumsy. Like my mother and sister, I'm left-handed (my father and brother > are both righties . . . figure that one out). All of us have normal motor > coordination; in fact, my mother and I have both always been very busy in > hand crafts and that sort of thing. The only time I'm abnormally clumsy is > when I'm trying to find my way to the bathroom after too many margaritas. :-) > > Helen Anne > > {ucbvax,ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!hav > > "J. Frank Parnell." > "Ott . . . Otto." > "Do you ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?" *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Helen Anne, I don't think that Bill is implying that left-handed people are clumsy, he is saying is that it is hard enough being coordinated using whichever hand comes naturally (right or left) but even harder to coordinate using the hand which one would not normally use. (His stmt could apply to either righties or lefties) Reggie [-----------------------------------------------------------------------] Reginald J. Lewis AT&T Information Systems Summit, N.J. {allegra ihnp4}!attunix!rjl