#left handedness

You know, I see a lot of sort of people talking about being a minority, having so few representation in various medias (comics, movies, series, manga,...): People of Colors, LGBTQ+, autistic people, TDAH people, visible and invisible disabilited people, etc.

They are right, of course.

But there is a minority who is practically ignored by everyone. Do you see who am I talking about?

Left-handed people.

Yup, we are the most ignored minority! We live in the world made for right-handed: scissors, some medical tools, some video game on DS, sewing machine, computer mouse, etc.

You probably think: "it's just a hand. It's a detail." Trust me, it's not. For example in sport like: tennis, fencing, ping-pong, golf, baseball...

When I was younger, I played baseball at sportclass. When it was my turn to be the batter, the pitcher didn't know how to throw the ball at me. I wasn't standing like right-handed, I was in mirror and it was perturbing for her.

In the past, left-hand people was forced to write with their right hand... and couldn't write correctly because of this. The Christian religion claimed that the left hand was the hand of the Devil... And it was like this until 1960-1970...

Now, if you don't believe that left-handed people can't be seen as a minority, tell me what we are then?

Also, let's play a game: give me at least the name of 5 characters of whatever media who are confirmed to be left-handed.

Xion and Ventus from Kingdom Hearts don't count:

Xion is supposed to be left-handed but use her right hand.

Ventus was left-handed in the secret ending of KH2 but is right-handed in BBS, 3D and KH3

Here mine:

okay just because i'm left-handed doesn't mean i have to wear my watch on the right

🤙👍👈🤜

Can't switch the computer mouse to the otherside at work because the cord isn't long enough. Can't use the scissors left handed because nobody ever thinks of buying the ambidextrous scissors. Haven't seen a console video game in nearly a decade that offers different controller layouts. And that's just my pet peaves.

The one that's currently driving me nuts is an issue of adaptability. The pinky on my right hand doesn't quite work right because of injuries during my youth. This isn't often a problem as the pinky is not used often and most things i do can adapt around this.

However, i've been trying to play the recorder again and you can't really play that without a right pinky. So i figured someone has to make a lefty recorder. And to be fair moek does, but it's more expensive, only comes in a soprano chilldren's version, and it has a little condescending preamble on the website about how the recorder is really an 'ambidextrous instrument' and there is no benefit to playing a lefthanded one.