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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which is strange given that so many world-class renowned inventors and artists are all left handed

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Obviously they were inspired by the left handed devil.

[–] droans 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it is where the word "sinister" came from.

People used to think left-handed people were demonic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can still see it in the italian sinistra and in the french senestre (mostly obsolete)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'd be careful trying to deduce something from that (to my knowledge not too studied) factoid. It could (pure speculation) also be, that children growing up with the freedom to use whichever hand they wanted at a time when that wasn't generally the case also had other freedoms like developing their creativity.