The demon must sit on the left (sinister) shoulder, surely?

Predictably leftist statement there.

Sinister is no more than the heraldic and archaic form of left which you righties have turned into a term of approbation. It is no more acceptable to use the word sinister than it is to use racist terms. It is simply pointing out our difference, one that we are born with and cannot help, in order to belittle us. To imply that we are evil or untrustworthy.

Left handers face such considerable trials in society, scissors and only right handed clubs being available for hire at the driving range for instance, that many of us are forced to dabble in ambidextrosity. The human brain was simply not made to work that way, and as a result many of us are doomed to become psychopaths and basket cases.

Jimi Hendrix played a right handed guitar upside down because a left handed one was not available to him. To this day left handed guitars cost far more then their right handed equivalent. Imagine if vacuum cleaners cost more for black people, or toiletries cost more for lesbians. THAT would be discrimination. But charging lefties more for goods is acceptable.

If one looks at the fields of endeavour in which left handers are well represented, it's always ones where the equipment does not preclude it, baseball not golf, painting not kirigami.

It is to be thanked that Matt Groening, a left-hander himself, has brought the subject to mass attention by writing it, in the shape of Ned Diddley-ed Flanders Leftorium, into the Simpsons. It is ironic though, that even as one who you would expect to sympathise with our plight Groening made Ned a religious nut-job.

So please remember, next time, before you jump to abjure lefties that without them, the world would have not had the talents of: Kurt Cobain from out of Nivana, Diego Maradona, Mark Spitz from out of the olympic swimming, Jimmy Connors OR John McEnroe from out of the 1984 Wimbledon final, Goran Ivanesivic from out of another (more recent) Wimbledon final, Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth from out of American rounders and chocolate bars respectively, Peter Fonda, Matthew Broderick imagine a world without Ferris Beuller. Is THAT a world you would want to live in? Peter Fonda, Bruce Willis, Wil Wheaton, Christian Slater, Mickey Rourke, Keanu Reeves, Luke Perry, Lisa Kudrow, Nicole Kidman, Robert Plant out of the Led Zeppelin, H.G. Wells, Leonardo da Vinci or M.C. Escher (from out of the Blazing Squad???).

So we're all, like... sinister and you're all "adroit", and stuff?? Oppressive pig!

To this day ginger haired people (of which I am one) get the piss taken out of them, even on prime time TV.

Learn to deal.

:)

I thought you were more of a strawberry blond these days.


I pity the ginner leftie!

Ooh, the left-handed, red-headed stepchild...I know at least two of them, probably three...

"Beat him like a red-headed stepchild" was a popular phrase I still use to this day...despite knowing several.

What about us poor brunettes? Many of us tormented by the media's depiction of blondes as superior, so many of our women with such self-hatred that they bleach and attempt to "pass". We're an opressed semi-majority, I tells ya...