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But you just called yourself a southpaw - what is that, if not self derision? And anyway, it reads more like making fun out of the almost religious belief that
by gambiting 3mo ago
But you just called yourself a southpaw - what is that, if not self derision?
And anyway, it reads more like making fun out of the almost religious belief that left handed people don't exist held not by the writer but by developers of wordpress.
- naikrovek 3mo agoit's not a derisive term. it's just a nickname for a left-handed pitcher in baseball, because their left hand is on the south side of the pitcher when pitching in whatever field that term was coined in. it is a nickname that stuck for some reason. i've never felt that term to be derisive in my life.
- gambiting 3mo agoSome people do: "Today, we often use southpaw as a good-natured term for a left-handed person, but the word is sometimes viewed as stigmatizing by left-handed people." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/southpaw https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/southpaw
- naikrovek 3mo agoWell good for them. No one has ever said it to me in a derisive way and if anyone ever does I will educate them.