It wasn’t until I was preparing for squares that I noticed it. Slide the arrow and take a closer look. Now slide again, notice anything?

Both hands are the same. When I first saw them I decided they were left handed, but Tom highlighted I was having a moment and of course they are both right handed. An example of how generally everything is seen and created from a right handed perspective. So are all hands like this? I had another look in my Portuguese album, and happily I found some left handed ones.

Our world around us though is generally created for those in power or in majority, with little or no consideration to different perspectives [With the exception of a left handed Bishop who defeated a dragon (more here)].

In our lifetime children were being told off for writing with their left hands or even worse had their knuckles rapped or left arms tied behind their backs so they had to write with their right hands. Even today it seems there are teachers who do not know how to advise left-handers to write, or see left-handedness as an issue. The methodology is different if they are to avoid poor posture or smudging their work in a western world which insists we write left to right. Why can’t left-handers write right to left? If that seems a ridiculous thought to you, then;

Imagine a world, right handers, where all of your scissors were made for the comfort of left-handers.

Dr deborah Thorpe, university of york
History extra, August 2017: A History of Left handed writing

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  6. I’d never thought to see which hands they were n the doors. Now I shall look every time. My uncle was a left hander forced to use his right & he ended up ambidextrous but not as confident as his brother. At school we had an Art room full of left handed scissors.It certainly made us right handers aware of the difficulties. My perspective today is animals in an urban setting. https://somerville66.blogspot.com/2020/07/squareperspectives-10-tough-chewing.html

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    1. What an excellent school to make you all think. Wish more did that.

      How tough for your uncle. A skill to be ambidextrous, but it should be a natural one not forced

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    1. Thanks Margaret, just trying to get my little bit of the world to see things from different perspectives . . . .all part of my campaign challenging our western world for white males!

      BTW your post certainly isn’t text book, it is fabulous. How much has changed though since January!

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      1. Western white males? But surely they ARE the centre of the known universe? Go girl! Yes, I really can’t believe that photo is a mere six months old – *sigh*

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        1. Nah Septimus is the centre of the known universe, well I think that is what is screeching beside me there again he might be asking for some of my marmite on toast!!!

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  16. It may be a little early in the morning, but to me, Becky, they look like right hands. Unless the image is in a mirror. Or unless I’m getting my rights and lefts mixed up again. But with the palm facing the door and the thumb being on the side its on I’m seeing it right. Unless I’m not. Ooohhh, it’s a good job it’s not fully light yet as a darkened room beckons! 😀
    My post today doesn’t have any hands… not that we can see, that is! https://wp.me/pVkLb-52R

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    1. No it’s me . . . . I was having a moment!! I had been going to use another door and then changed my mind about the photo!! Hee hee what am I like, so confused these days. I have re-worded it slightly. Thanks Tom 😀

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      1. Phew. I thought I was having a moment there! Hehehe! Actually I was though, thinking about it… they’d still be right hands in a mirror. The darkened room’s beckoning is now more of a whisper! 😃 Thanks, Becky.

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        2. Let’s just say we’re both a step or two behind the ball and leave it there! And nonchalantly move on. Whistling, if necessary. Never looking back. 🤣

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  20. Lovely hand door knobs. Both my children are left handed but hubby and I are right. They had a struggle with scissors. My daughter writes beautifully but my 25 year old son still writes like a seven year old!

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        3. You ok? Successfully reached another weekend? 🙂 I probably won’t be chirping up again tomorrow, unless from sunny Sagres, which I doubt. The beloved boy child is about to be jobless so cause for celebration is scant. 😦

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