New article about how colleges are "fatphobic."
Link:
http://archive.li/WNjuD
You know trying to find the one left-handed compatible desk in a lecture hall and then fight for it wih two other people is ALSO a bitch, but that doesn’t make colleges lefthandphobic. It just means those terrible little half desk seats with the desk part only supporting the right arm is that way because 85-90% of the world is right-handed. And left handed people have to squabble over the one single left-hand desk available, or sit there uncomfortably trying to write while most of their left arm is propped up in their lap, even if that means it makes your arm tired all through class or puts a strain on your neck to lean over oddly as you write. But they just DO it. What they don’t do is scream that it’s oppression and everyone is left-shaming them and being hateful.
Or try buying a potato peeler or pair of scissors that claims it works for both hand and no, no it doesn’t. They just changed the handles, not the angle of the blade, and it works terrible and hurts your hand. Or not being able to use certain cool game joysticks for flight simulators because they have the buttons arranged down the left side of the stick and the only way to hold it is in your right.
Try going to the store for a medical arm brace and being told they don’t have left handed ones to fit around your fingers, so you spend more to buy one online. Try wearing a nice watch on your right arm and the windup button is always on the wrong side for you to reach. Or a million other small, inconvenient things that left-handers don’t whinge about because they’re SMALL and just INCONVENIENT. Not leftshaming and hateful and oppressive. Oh you think society shames you? There are religious schools still forcing lefthanded kids to write with the right hand, causing “stuttering, dyslexia and emotional distress”, because left handers are the actual devil. In third world countries it’s seen as a terrible omen and people can be driven away from a village for it.
Also in case you think I’m just bringing up old superstitions from the witch-burning days, check this quote:
“In the ’70s, noted psychologist Theodore Blau would write that left-handed, “sinister” children were academically and behaviorally challenged, and disposed to diseases including schizophrenia. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, Stanley Coren would note that left-handed people lived shorter, poorer lives, and that being left-handed was the result of “neurological insult or physical malfunctioning.” “
Right up until the end of the 20th century, Europeans and Americans have been deeming lefthanded people as sick, deformed or criminally-minded. But nobody whinges that the world is leftphobic and oppressive.
