In yesterday’s entry I mentioned I am left-handed. A Spo-fan responded he finds lefties sexy. Well! This is the first time I’ve heard this as a turn-on. What do you call those attracted to southpaws? Port-queens?
I am the only lefty in my family. No one tried to force me to be right-handed. Living in a right handed world has its challenges. I’ve learned to do right handed out of necessity, like using scissors or unzipping a fly. Like a lot of lefties, I can use my right hand in lieu of my left. I learned to sign with my R hand, which allows me to sign and write at the same time.
I suspect my propensity towards a lack of coordination is based on my general confusion which side do I use. To this day I am unable to throw a ball. Father gave up trying to teach me guitar and Uncle couldn’t teach me golf. The music teacher scolded me for picking up the French Horn ‘the wrong way’. I’ve given up on all these activities three.
Someone is right handed. I always take the left side of things, such as hotel room drawers, or closet space. In restaurants I scout location towards the sitting arrangements. This allows us both free use of our dominant hands.
I’ve heard tell lefties have a higher number of geniuses than right-handers. I have also heard there are also more left-handed psychopaths.
Is there a link between left handedness and being gay? I don’t know. I am curious if lefties also have larger L testicles to their R, and does the L hang lower than its fellow? While I are down there, does one’s John Thomas list to port?
Are any of you Spo-fans left-handed?
How ‘left’ are you, or are you like me who does some activities left, some right?
Was anyone forced to be ‘right’?
36 comments
September 21, 2011 at 9:03 PM
Tai
Yes it seems lefties are smart ones.
September 21, 2011 at 9:47 PM
Erik Rubright
My Husbear is a total southpaw.
As for myself, I’m ambidextrous, but not completely. I tend to draw and write with my right hand, but I do everything else left handed. Which probably explains my general confusion too when it comes to things requiring coordination.
As for the below the belt questions, I’ll have to check…..
September 21, 2011 at 10:25 PM
Raybeard
Like your Spo-fan (yes, I know there are thousands of them) I too find left-handedness sexy, but can’t explain why.
However, I have a particular sympathy for some of those with this characteristic viz. left-handed Muslims – and most especially for any in the catering trade. Must be a nightmare having to watch continuously what they are doing with their left hands.
September 21, 2011 at 10:44 PM
wcs
Leftie here, too. No one ever tried to force me to be a rightie. When I played baseball in gym class, I batted right handed, but threw left. I played tennis as a leftie. I, too, try to work restaurant seating so that my left hand is free. I also try to get my left hand on the aisle in airliners. There is also one other thing I do right-handed, but I shall not mention it here lest your family be reading. 😉
September 21, 2011 at 11:21 PM
Nik_TheGreek
I use my right hand but I can’t play guitar or golf all the same. Don’t worry about that. And I don’t think I can throw ball either…
You know that the difference between geniuses and psychopaths is not that great…
September 22, 2011 at 2:02 AM
Mark
My daughter is a leftie and she can’t play the French Horn either. You may be on to something!
m.
September 23, 2011 at 8:37 AM
Cameron
No, the French Horn is actually operated with the left hand!
There must be OTHER reasons why she can’t play the horn. 😉
September 23, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Urspo
Correction: it was the alto horn.
September 22, 2011 at 2:44 AM
Sassybear
My youngest brother was left handed. My father forced him to be right handed and he is a right-hand user to this day. I have always felt bad for him being forced to change.
I am only left in the political sense. Way left. Uber left.
But I do find left handed men have certain enjoyable skills that differ a bit from righties 😉
September 22, 2011 at 2:58 AM
Buddy Bear
Sean, you can’t just tease us like that without details! Do tell!!
September 22, 2011 at 3:02 AM
Buddy Bear
I am right handed in everything I do but when I snowboard, I am incurably “left footed.” Only about 20% of snowboarders are “goofy footed” like me, which means that we have left foot closer to the rear of the snowboard. This is the foot which is used to steer the snowboard.
September 22, 2011 at 3:15 AM
Blobby
I am left-handed, but only in four functions of my life. Is that normal? odd? wrong?
I eat and write as a lefty. I can’t even hold a guitar in a right-handed fashion. …and then, um….I um…..do one other thing w/my left-hand.
Everything else is by my right.
September 22, 2011 at 4:06 AM
Gerry Hough
I consider myself to be a leftie, but most people think I’m ambidextrous. I eat, write, draw, paint, etc. with my left hand. Because I eat with my left hand, I too am choosy about restaurant seating. When flying, I prefer the aisle seat on the right hand side of the aisle
I play baseball or softball right-handed. I play golf left-handed. I play racquet sports with either hand although, my left is stronger.
Anatomically, the left is larger and lower, and Mr. T. lists to starboard. I zip with my right hand otherwise I tend to catch the flap of fabric in the zipper.
My first grade teacher tried but after a parental conference she left me alone. I have a high IQ and did very well in school, but have done a lot of really dumb thing in my life.
September 22, 2011 at 4:24 AM
foxystone
My parents forced me to be a righty after my older brother had so much trouble in school adapting. Because of this my hand writing is atrocious and I have a lump on my ring finger from the odd way I have to hold a writing implement.
My partner is a lefty
September 22, 2011 at 4:37 AM
Sky Clad Therapy
Okay, I couldn’t resist responding to your post. First, I am not a left-handed person and I am very, very smart – but sadly, not a genius That said, perhaps not smart enough as I find myself answering your questions – ah you are a skilled questioner. I am right-handed ~ well, sort of. I throw a ball (quite well, actually) with my right hand. That said, I bat left-handed. I am a good golfer – left-handed. Perhaps I can coach you. I can write with either hand which I found out I could do when I broke my right wrist much to the disappointment of my history students one year. Writing left-handed still gives me better handwriting than the average teen-aged male. I shuffle cards left-handed, paint with both hands.
As for testicles, left side hangs lower. And the member lists to the left. I sleep on the left side of the bed if one is facing the bed, but on the right side once on the bed staring up at the ceiling (which I never find comfortable so I lay on my side, stomach again on the left side). As for orientation, I find females and their anatomy to be endlessly interesting and compelling.
September 22, 2011 at 5:02 AM
DougT
I am mostly right body dominated. I write, throw, and, um, other things right handed. I.m also right footed. On the other hand, I always use a telephone with my left ear and use a monocular microscope or range finding scope with my left eye. I’ve always attributed the former to being hard of hearing in my right ear.
September 22, 2011 at 5:31 AM
Jay
Two things I always tried to do with my left handed students.
1) make them feel comfortable about being left handed
2) make sure they knew that left handed people were “right-brained”
oh and I tried to teach them not to disguise their left handedness by twisting things around when writing. The same rules apply for good penmanship – but then most people (especially doctors) don’t seem to care about good penmanship anymore.
September 22, 2011 at 5:44 AM
Urspo
I’ve been told they are giving up teaching penmanship as kiddies don’t write anymore but type.
September 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM
Raybob
Right-handed when I write. I do many things left-handed. I *can* write backwards with my left hand though 🙂
September 22, 2011 at 6:54 AM
Will J
As a child my father discovered that I was left-handed. He was trying to feed me and I kept throwing the spoon across the kitchen. He walked away (probably to get a bit of peace and quiet) and when he turned around, I was eating by myself, but holding the spoon in my left hand. Although he made this discovery, he never quite got used to it. I remember visiting him as a young adult shortly before he died and he mentioned that watching me use the kitchen knives seemed very awkward.
And yes, I just checked and the left one hangs just a bit lower than the right one.
September 22, 2011 at 7:06 AM
Shawn
I can explain why I am attracted to southpaws, but that is better explained in person and not on this blog.
I am a righty…but leftys ‘rock my world’!
September 22, 2011 at 9:07 AM
AjohnP
Both Jim and I are left-handed and while he’s a ‘true’ lefty, the only things I do as a lefty are: eat, write, and shoot pool. Everything else I do as a righty. It wasn’t because I was forced….it just happened that way.
Weird.
September 22, 2011 at 10:31 AM
jefferyrn
I am a lefty. I never heard that we were sexy before. Creative and intelligent yes. As for eating I am able to use either hand unless there is meat to be cut, then I need to choose my place carefully. All those teasing sexual comments remind me of a joke about sleeping with a stranger by using your right hand or something like that…hmm.
September 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Laurent
Well Obama is a lefty (meaning he writes with his left hand and so did Clinton) I am too.
Yes I heard people say that lefty are sexy.
September 22, 2011 at 1:35 PM
jason
I wish I were left handed….even just a bit. My right hand is so dominant that I can barely do anything with the left. Sad.
September 22, 2011 at 3:48 PM
truthspew
I’m somewhat ambidextrous. It’s because as a kid I was left handed and they kept forcing me to use my right.
In fact I have more manual dexterity in my left hand than in my right.
September 22, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Jan Goldfield
I have mixed lateral dominance, so I remain constantly confused. Left dominant at times, right dominant others. But I am relatively bright regardless.
September 22, 2011 at 4:39 PM
the cajun
everything in our world is geared for righties. Lefties (yes, I am one) are more prone to accidents (well, surprise!) have been outcasts (I was beaten by nuns so badly, I was removed from Catholic school after only one week), and called the devil’s spawn.
Sadly, I can only zip my fly and button shirt cuffs with the right hand. It no longer embarrasses me as it once did.
September 23, 2011 at 2:18 AM
scottsabode
I never thought about zips being right handed! Front-on you need to use your left for it though…
September 23, 2011 at 5:57 AM
Cubby
Left-handers are an abomination unto the Lord!
Or do I mean gays? I forget…
September 23, 2011 at 8:33 AM
Cameron
That’s FUNNY Spo — French Horns ARE left-handed instruments!
I’m left handed, too.
September 23, 2011 at 12:05 PM
Urspo
only the best, babycakes!
September 24, 2011 at 7:19 AM
Sean
I probably would have been a lefty but was encouraged to use my right. I can do most anything with either hand. When it comes to being righty or lefty, we are all both. Ever try to put on a button down shirt or pair of paints with just one hand? Use a can opener? Got the idea?
I too find lefties a bit more sexy. I’m sure there are stats I could google but simple observation tells me that artistic types, gays and the deaf tend to have a greater percentage of lefthandedness than the rest of the population. Which brings up a question.
Do you j/o using your dominate hand or opposite hand? I’m an opposited kinda guy.
September 24, 2011 at 9:38 AM
misteraudacious
I come from a long line of lefties. My Gramma F was a lefty but always way made to write with her right. She had 3 children, 1 was a lefty. Each of her 2 had two children, the oldest of each set are lefties. I am definitely ambidextrous, but can hardly hit my mouth with eating utensils with my right, and never would attempt to swing a hammer with my right. I can write well with either hand.
Neither of my children are lefties, but my two grandsons are, and I am thinking my granddaughter is going to be a rightie.
In the “outfield” my left is lower than the right and the bat swings slightly to the left. “Personal release” happens with whichever hand feels the bestat the time. Either one is my best friend.
September 25, 2011 at 5:40 PM
Ron
I am a righty as is Bill. One of my younger brothers is a lefty and as was the norm in grade school in the early Fifties, his elementary school teachers tried to force him to write right handed (they weren’t successful). One thing I’ve always wondered about lefties, do you do “it” with your left hand or right hand?
September 28, 2011 at 1:13 PM
justjock
apparently, I am a genius psychopath. I may be kidding.