My boss is left handed but was trained otherwise, so it did happen not too long ago since he is only in his mid 40s.

I'm all for training ambidexterity in school since it gives you a lot of advantages like in drumming and playing other instruments and it seems to have fascinating and quite beneficial effects on the brain.

Whether or not it's forced, it's just not practical to have to constantly be trudging to the Leftorium every time you need a left handed nun-chuck or bottle opener.

I also find myself needing to operate a screw driver left handed more often than one would expect due to not being able to get in there with my right hand.

This is a really good example, and can be a great trojan horse for a less emotionally charged discussion. FYI, I don't think it's rare at all. Remember the developed world is still the minority of humanity. Also, consider left handed people have coped, better or worse, with being forced to learn how to use their right hand for a long long time. And that some right handed folk like to learn and be ambidextrous. The point being that these whole topics are not black and white. Biological tendencies CAN be subverted by behavioral hacks - coercive or not. - and any look at history will show that. Whether they should be subverted is a separate question, I tend to say they shouldn't but questions of how far parents or authority proxies should be able to control children are very tricky.

Why age does not count?

If age does not count then 5 year old kids can drink alcohol, smoke, watch prom, drive, have consensual sex with a 50 year old and the police should not jail the 50 year old.

And you are saying no gay ever regret their sexual orientation and change back? All straight can only be gay and not otherwise or even hetero. No one ever got tired and want to change back?

Of course a gay may not end well with a straight relationship. But what that is going to do with gay who regretted their sexual orientation?

Do you want to dismiss the minority of LGBT who regretted their sexual orientation while campaigning that the LGBT should not be dismissed just because they are the minority? Also, we do not know the actual numbers of LGBT who regretted it is really the minority. Now sure how many people would publicly say it like Pax11.

If adults would regret it, children who have immature world view would fluctuate even more.
Of course extremist conversion efforts are silly, but there are a number of LGBT who would go back. The ideal case would be these people change back their sexual orientation naturally. Or seek help in conversion program not tied to RELIGION and have actual scientific and physiology grounds.

If you want my support to abolish extremist conversion efforts, you have it.
If you want my support to lock down every kid with the slightest fantasy they are the opposite sex to be forever the opposite sex. NO
If you want my support to abolish reasonable conversion efforts. NO

This community has plenty of class...it's all low, but still class nonetheless.

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So a classy post turns out to move to speak about what people do without their underpants... mmmmmm ...

I thought we already knew the answer was dance.

I have nothing good to say about Marx. Well, that's not entirely true. He had a cool beard. Most batshit crazy men do grow a fine beard or 'stache at some point in their life.

The funny thing about Marx is, if he were teleported to modern times, he'd be shouted down by the very people who his views and philosophies helped inlfuence.. for overusing his male privilege, among other things. Karma's a bitch, ain't it, Karl?

I'm sure he'd have a good response to that, but he'd probably need to check it with his pal Engels first.

Ah huevo! Ha ganado el proletariado!

Hell, sometimes those activities don't help, I am a lefty in South America, it's not difficult by any strecth, I am just bitching really, but I am always using my right hand for those products only defined by the commodity of a right hand-dexterous, when I am in fact better using it with my left even when I look really weird trying to use an english wrench to close a tube in my bathroom that is meant to be pulled not pushed

I had my left arm already damaged through an stilette that went through the conjection in the end of my arm that goes through my shoulder, my writing looked like the scribbings of a wendigo, and I had to deal with that for 2 months, and it never got any better (the writing I mean), it's bullshit to be ambidexterous if you don't even have the capacity to accomplish it due to having my left hand as an already prioretized asset in my brain.

It takes practice. The problem with writing is that, unlike most other activities, it's more than just learning to use the hand, you also have to learn how to write. Writing lefty versus righty isn't the same and the same hand positions aren't going to work unless you also decide to switch from right to left righting.

I can write with both hands with reasonable penmanship, but I lack the patience to work on it frequently enough to make it efficient.

Other than that, you have to start with gross movements. Things like throwing and catching, those are the ones you develop first with the dominant hand, so they should be the ones you start with on the non-dominant hand. It takes time to develop an intuitive sense that you can use the other hand for the task without having to think about it.

Please guys, and girls, navigate with both hands on the computer, one in the keyboard, and one in the mouse, to maintan the forum classy.

I have no problem with occasionally turning on snobby condescension mode, but if you do, please have spellchecker on. Makes things so much more consistent. No one likes a backseat driver who has had his license revoked.

Nonsense. that might have worked in the bbs days. but no longer. nowadays the proper for navigating the internet is one hand on the mouse one hand on the dick.