#left-handness

[moontheoretist]

I am rewatching Karasuno's match with Shiratorizawa and no matter how I look at it, this whole arc is big great and powerful message about how being different is good and shouldn't be policed. Yes, Shiratorizawa relied too much on Ushijima, but he was still their ace and the best player we ever saw, and he was left-handed. To top it the 4th set for Karasuno was also won by an action made with a left hand. It makes you really appreciate how much thought author put in the story when you see them tackling the issue of correcting left-handness in Japan. Those messages which bring to the spotlight the issues within society are the ones I live for when I consume any medium, as those powerful messages have a chance to make people start thinking more about world they live in, noticing and criticizing the biases they maybe weren't aware of before. 

I didn't put much thought into that before as for me kids in class who were left-handed was nothing new. We do not have any tradition of shutting people of due to that sole fact. More like when I was small, and we had a friend who was left-handed, we thought that it was very cool and tried to practice writing with left hand, because of this one person who showed us this new way we weren't aware of before. We of course sucked tremendously at that, but when I look back at it, it was nice that people like that weren't forced to change and fit into right-handed majority, even if society at large makes things suitable for left-handed people in stores not only hard to get but also more expensive due to small number of people who need them (you know, stupid profit logic). Anyway, this bias is something which I think should disappear and messages like that showed in Haikyuu!! help a lot with changing the world for the better. 

I hope this message hit Japanese society hard.

Also, we should send a big hug and a lot of love to Wakatoshi’s father for protecting his left-handness from family tradition of correcting that.

[seeingteacupsindragons]

I was debating whether or not the protagonist of AISP or his love interest should be left-handed last night, and I decide….why not both? I haven’t done that before.

This probably sounds incredibly dumb to most of you, but f you read much of what I write, usually at least one major character (usually one of the protagonists) is left-handed. When I was in middle school, a character’s handed-ness was something I put on character sheets so everyone I shared the story with would know.

Left-handed characters are something that matter to me. Reason one: there are very many. Reason two: the ones we get are usually villains or assholes. And this isn’t quite as subconscious as you might assume. Tom Cruise is a lefty in real life, yet when he’s playing a hero on the Big Screen, he’s playing them right-handed. Except, of course, when he’s playing an anti-hero, then it’s okay to play them left-handed.

I’m kind of done with this.

Most people assume lefty’s don’t have any systemic societal problems anymore because no one wants to beat it out of us or thinks we’re devil spawn anymore. First off, that’s not actually entirely true. Second, that doesn’t change the centuries and millennia of society building equipment and designing equipment and buying equipment for right-handed people. I cannot go to a store and buy a pair of left-handed scissors.  I have to buy them online with a surcharge for being for lefties.

Lefties have a shorter life-expectancy, specifically because we get into more accidents because nothing is made for us to use properly and with coordination.

Right-handed people don’t notice any of this, so nothing changes.

Meeting another left-handed person is extremely exciting for me, and for most lefties. It’s a solidarity thing. So yeah, I’m going to put that in everything I write.