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Originally Posted by Elkyiv
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I'll counter that with the history of left-handedness, not from a comedian, but from research conducted by McGill
http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiolog...Handedness.pdf
tl;dr basically for 200,000 years humans averaged out ~11% left-handed, except during the Victorian era into the 1950s where it fell to as low as a reported 3%. As the paper states:
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it seems undoubted that there was a general stigmatization and discrimination against left-handers at the end of the nineteenth century
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My mother is left-handed, and she told me that her teachers would hit her with a ruler if she wrote with her left hand and one actually tied her left hand to her chair and forced her to write right handed. That's in Canada, in the 60's.