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Are left-handed people worst than right-handed?

They said that left means sinister...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    why would that be a concern to you

    every one is equal

    no matter what colour skin

    or (in your case)

    what hand they wright with

  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe in the middle ages, where you could probably get burned at the stake for being left-handed. But I think in the 21st century people are pretty much over all that nonsense.

    Even animals are left or right handed (or pawed) you know. My cat is left-pawed and she's the sweetest thing, far from 'sinister'.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That is a myth. People used to believe this because left handed people are rare. My father and brother are left handed they are not sinister. Some of the great artist and writers were left handed.

  • 1 decade ago

    The TRUE reason people don't like left handed people goes back to the time BEFORE we had toilet paper.

    You ask "What did they use to wipe?"

    The answer:

    their left hands

    the left hand wasn't allowed ANYWHERE near the table top,it was kept under the table.

    So there is a residual stigma left that "south paws" have to live with.

    I look at it this way:

    if the left side of the body is controlled by the right side of the brain(that's what they tell us in the medical books :)....

    lefty's are the only ones in their right minds!!!!!!!

    Source(s): credit goes to my high school history teacher who wasn't afraid to answer the tough questions!!!
  • 1 decade ago

    this from wikipedia on the origins of the word:

    Sinister is originally a Latin term for left or to the left (and by extension, left-handedness), and is used in heraldry to refer to the left of the bearer of the arms, and to the right by the viewer's eyes. It is often used to mean evil.

    there are so many myths and misconceptions about left-handed people... i don't know where to start (the bible favours the right hand, obviously), the word in french for left is 'gauche' which means clumsy, maladroit. i tell you what, start by having a look at this article:

    http://bridgingschisms.org/2009/04/sinister-supers...

    anyway, to answer your question, no, left-handed people are no worse than right-handers, i think lefties are just fab but i would think that, i am one of them!

  • 1 decade ago

    Nope.

    That goes back to all of the witchcraft junk (sorry) around the 1960's.

    Being left handed is uncommon...which turned into not normal...which turned into not right...which turned into things like sinister.

    In the 4th grade, I had an art teacher who made me draw with my right hand. She told me it wasn't right. Ha ha. I went in the bathroom and cried too! :-)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Im left handed and I know of people way worse than me. Im not in prison for murder

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That's ... Odd

    I Don't Think People Should Be Judged By Which Hand They Write With =?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Is walking under a ladder bad luck?

    Are there such things as 3 legged goblins?

    C'mon.

  • 1 decade ago

    they only say that because the left hand path is supposed to be the path that leads you to hell, therefore your left hand is the hand of Satan.

    if you follow that belief system.

    the rest of us just say it's a left hand. :D

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