Left Handed vs Right Handed: Privilege Explained

[reixun]

How many of you are right-handed? I myself am right-handed. As a right-handed person, the world is suited to me. I never face inconvenience due to being right-handed. I always fit in being right-handed. It is the default. It is the majority.

How often would a right-handed person notice the difficulties of being left-handed? There are plenty (add to this list if you'd like): from scissors never being suited to their hands...

...to desk positions making comfort difficult, to credit card machines being on the wrong side

Being left-handed is on that person's mind when they come across situations that distinguish lefties and righties.

I can't deny the struggles of left-handedness legitimately because I just haven't experienced them. Unless, of course, it was opposite day and all the desks were for lefties, all the scissors in the box didn't fit my hand and etc.

That's privilege, if you got it, you can't see it.

[CHARismatic110]

Less about what hand is dominant, more about what privilege is in general, how easy it is to overlook, and how it effects those not privy to having it. At least that's what I got out of it.

[reixun]

Exactly what I wanted, I should've made a conclusion that spelled it out so less people strayed from the main point of what privilege is.

[CHARismatic110]

Yeah, that probably would've helped a bit. People tend to lose focus and not understand unless it's spelled out for them. And even then, they still might not get it.

But I got it. Good Take.

[reixun]

Too bad I can't edit

[reixun]

Didn't expect people to be this lost

[hellionthesagereborn]

That's an interesting definition/idea of privilege, of course that means I can claim every one is privilege and you can't argue against it because since you have the privilege you don't know you have it making it completely unfalsifiable and by extention provable.

[noheadphones]

I'm left-handed 😒
And somehow I managed to survive 20 years

[reixun]

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[noheadphones]

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[Triss]

Lol your gifs tho😂

[noheadphones]

I know right? I'm awesome 😎

[Bvroon]

Like you I too have managed to make it for over twice as long as you, and while it is true I'm a lefty, I have adapted to live in a right handed world, I can use scissors with my right, mouse with my right, throw a frisbee, etc. etc. We can adapt.

[redeyemindtricks]

You're missing the important fact that being left-handed can also be a HUGE advantage.
When it comes to survival -- including any sort of hand-to-hand fighting -- lefties have a GIGANTIC edge (... so much so that, the more violent a society is, the larger the percentage of left-handed people it has).
Also, left-handers are at a great advantage if they want to become professional athletes.
I wrote about all that here:
www.girlsaskguys.com/.../a31512-13-problems-lefties-face-in-a-right-handed-world

The disadvantages you're describing -- except maybe when it comes to using large power tools -- are pretty much trivial. So, one could argue that left-handedness is even an advantage, overall. It DEFINITELY was for my husband, when he was growing up as a street kid (see link).

The big question is whether this makes YOUR analogy worse... or better.

[reixun]

Interesting, I think it would make it better because in every person "without privilege" there are unseen advantages. This entire take was a mess though, still wish I could edit for clarity.

[redeyemindtricks]

"I think it would make it better because in every person "without privilege" there are unseen advantages"

^^ Exactly what I was thinking.

[hellionthesagereborn]

Wait are you serious? That's idiotic. Might as well list existing as a privilege. Right handedness isn't a privilege, its biology. Its you can't blame the majority for being right handed and demand they change to fit the minority that's idiotic. Are you privilege because as a woman your less likely to die from cancer then men? No because no institution is placing that on you its just biology. Privilege: a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. No one gave that to any body except biology.

[reixun]

You missed the point, this take is merely simplifying privilege for the basic person to understand and by the way most privileged people are privileged because of biology

[hellionthesagereborn]

But it isn't. What you said was not privilege it did not in any way represent privilege. Thats why I gave you the definition. No one gave that privilege, no one granted it but then refused it to another its biological ergo its not privilege. Its not advantageous to be right handed that does not confer an advantage over left handed people its just the way we are. The majority of people are right handed ergo most things are made for them. Its like claiming that since you can use penecillian for infections and I can't you are privileged. Its like saying since you have more melanin in your skin protecting you from the sun better your privileged, or because you are a woman and therefore live longer, are less likely to get cancer and various diseases etc. Its completely insane.

[hellionthesagereborn]

Its not about privilege its about self pity and demanding others treat you special when you have done nothing to earn that treatment. Its the victim mentality. In fact claiming its a privilege to be right handed would then mean greater sympathy for those who are not which itself would then be a privilege for them thus negating any kind of so called privilege that those who are right handed would have. This by the way goes for literally everything. It is nothing more then an excuse to tear down others, not just this but almost every single claim about privilege.

[reixun]

You dumb bro, race is biological and there's white privilege. Sex is biological and there's straight privilege

[hellionthesagereborn]

Clearly you have no understanding of what privilege is, so again its definition is: a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. That means everything you are saying is wrong because it was not something granted its not special (the definition of special being: better, greater, or otherwise different from what is usual) as it is the norm or usual). Here is also the definition of right: a moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way, which again handedness and biology do not fall under any of these things.

[hellionthesagereborn]

As for so called white privilege what is that exactly? The right to be blamed for everything or the right to be rejected based upon your skin color thanks to hiring quotas and special minority specific grants none of which have a white equivalent? Or perhaps the right and privilege to have all of our issues (like poverty as their are more poor whites then poor blacks or any one else for that matter) go unheard? Or is it the right to have our history distorted to make us look like monstsers and others as innocent victims (like how the irish where slaves and the first slave owner in america was anthony johnson an angolan, yeah turns out slavery wasn't racial it was social/econoimc/class based) www.oracleireland.com/Ireland/history/slaves.htm
https://www.blackpast.org/aah/johnson-anthony-1670

[hellionthesagereborn]

Also sorry to burst your bubble but race isn't biological, their is no way to determnine race scientificially making it a social construct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK3sguRWYK0
So your wrong on both of those accounts as well. Their is also no such thing as straight privilege as straight is in fact the norm, and as I pointed out earlier by definition in order to be privilege you must have something granted that raises you above the average or norm which being straight does not do. However being gay does, since by our current rules in society harming a gay person is actually considered a hate crime which results in more sever punishment but this is not true for straight people. Those who refuse service to a gay person are punished by society but the same does not hold true for a gay person refusing service to a heterosexual. So again you are wrong. Also I was reffering to gender not sexual orientation, so again, your wrong. Try harder to rationalize your bigotry next time.

[jacquesvol]

Left handed people have problems in this society, indeed.

What about Daltonians (color blind people?) They are simply excluded from a lot of jobs. WHY? Most signalling and machine lights rely on color differences.
So do clothing codes. A guy wearing purple or mauve will easily be considered gay. But Daltonians don't see much of a difference with blue.

Even something stupid like a clock radio: those red on black time displays are not visible to daltonians in daylight. And it can be very difficult to find another color combination.

[JiminsHoe]

I find the one with the man saying "Why are you people complaining Can't you see I have a burden too?" ironic considering you're complaining about being a lefty and "privilege" when there are things in the world like poverty, horrible parents, homelessness, loneliness, depression, etc. in the world, I doubt you really know what no privilege is like.

[JiminsHoe]

Lmao sorry that came out wrong, Gooooddddddd i'm a bitch, ily, not tryna offend you fam.

[reixun]

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[JiminsHoe]

Pft. I know. Honestly thats me everyday though sorry
If you've ever watched Clueless i'm low key Cher during those class speeches.
I LOW KEY FAILED ON MY Spanish ORAL EXAM I KEPT FUCKING STUMBLING ON MY WORDS
Please teach me your ways master 😂...

[RainbowFanGirl]

I explain the problems we face daily in this take 😂
www.girlsaskguys.com/.../a31512-13-problems-lefties-face-in-a-right-handed-world

Im tired of being oppressed!! Ahhhhh!!!

Just kidding lol. Little problems I face daily are not enough to stop me from shining 🙂

[Fathoms77]

... if we've reached the point where we're whining about differences in the lives of right- and left-handed people, there really is no hope.

[reixun]

Look at charismatic's opinion because you've missed the point too pops

[Fathoms77]

I get it, kid. And people your age need to worry a lot less about privilege and a LOT more about achievement.

[reixun]

I don't disagree, this take is just for people who deny it's existence. Is it possible to edit it for more clarity?

[Fathoms77]

I think it's fine the way it is.

[redeyemindtricks]

"whining"

"I get it, kid"

^^ I'm glad our site administrators are always so consummately professional.

[Theodorable]

@reixun my new girlfriend is left handed, and now I'm scared she might die...

[reixun]

Lmao rip, matter of time

[Theodorable]

Okay. I'm getting on Amazon and ordering her some left-handed scissors. For real.

[reixun]

That'd be the cutest present ever hahah

[Theodorable]

Haha! Thanks for your Take! I had no idea about my right-handed privilege, but now that I do, everything I buy is going to be left-handed to make it fair.

[AleDeEurope]

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[goldfinch23]

Somewhere I've read that left handed people are generally smarter than right handed people.

[wankiam]

can't see how that can be true but what is fact is that lefties have better eye to hand reaction times due to the left side of the brain dealing with motor reaction

[goldfinch23]

@wankiam uk.businessinsider.com/left-handed-people-may-be-smarter-2015-12

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

You definitely missed a few. I also wouldn't say that the card thing is a big deal, or any deal at all. I also don't get the 2nd to last 1 😔

[FallOutBoy2001]

I'm ambidextrous, save for writing (though it's improving) and I get so much shit for it but my coach is a leftie and so we can actually eat sitting next to each other however we please 😂

[Anonymous]

I think im going to write a mytake about being privileged because i don't suffer the effects of an apparent viral infection that causes people analyse any difference from one human to another and classify it as a privilege.

[Saoirse_Nua]

I think there is a growing awareness of this - I have seen a lot of articles about this lately and it is only when it is pointed out, you see how awkward it is.

[Yumix]

right handed

"There are plenty (add to this list if you'd like)"
fapping with left hands feels shit

[Anonymous]

Can we have a take about first world American privilege.

[Anonymous]

Racial privilege is BS, but Right handed privilege is very true.

[Bleh-___-]

F*ck binder rings

[capturemyheartnow]

i am right handed.

[Adigelunar]

thats perfect