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Can you guess this person's sexual orientation? (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Nov 2013
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Cleita
(75,480 posts)1. Not just the Middle Ages.
Sixty five years ago I remember left handed schoolmates having their left hand tied down to force them to learn to write with their right hand. Fortunately, a couple of years later, the teachers and parents got their pointed heads together and decided it was a bad idea.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)2. It was still happening 35 years ago.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)4. Yep.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)3. He's so sinister! Another accursed leftie!
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This is why the 'right' 'wing' hates Obama so much, huh?
loudsue
(14,087 posts)5. These days being "left" anything seems to be an abomination.
Whistleblowers, Occupiers, "liberals"....we all seem to be of the devil.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)6. I've been comparing being gay to being lefthanded for decades.
People roll their eyes and don't get it because they don't know their cultural history.
The Latin word for left is "sinistral" which is, not coincidentally, the root term for sinister. Left has been defined literally as evil for over two thousand years.