tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post137349021540148852..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Stutterer Awareness?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90648896001653908212010-12-04T09:02:11.581-08:002010-12-04T09:02:11.581-08:00It was always good for a horselaugh at the range w...It was always good for a horselaugh at the range when that hot .223 brass went down some lefty's shirt collar!Dutch Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687679491743923216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18209923031282138562010-12-02T14:50:49.640-08:002010-12-02T14:50:49.640-08:00It always annoyed me that the Marine Corps never i...<i>It always annoyed me that the Marine Corps never issued left-handed M16/M4 rifles. I hear that the Army, with its vastly larger resources, does issue lefty rifles. Is this true?</i><br /><br />The Army and the USMC issue the same stuff. The M16 isn't technically ambidextrous because there is a definite left and right to its design: it kicks spent brass to the right. Thus folks firing off the left shoulder get brass blown past their face, which some find obnoxious.<br /><br />Bolt-actions, mostly gone (but the USMC still uses the M40A1, older brother to the Army's M24) are a much bigger pain to use wrong-handed. <br /><br />The Austrians and Australians uses the Steyr AUG, which can be made totally lefty without much trouble. I gather it isn't done all that often but I'm no expert.B322https://www.blogger.com/profile/18257802768718375656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16946267751820950912010-12-02T10:21:37.234-08:002010-12-02T10:21:37.234-08:00It always annoyed me that the Marine Corps never i...It always annoyed me that the Marine Corps never issued left-handed M16/M4 rifles. I hear that the Army, with its vastly larger resources, does issue lefty rifles. Is this true?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41211041926326793942010-12-02T09:07:24.699-08:002010-12-02T09:07:24.699-08:00Deaf identity politics remind me of gay politics. ...Deaf identity politics remind me of gay politics. I see them both as disabilities. <br /><br />I wouldn't want any of my kids to be disabled in anyway but both deaf and gay parents often want their children that way. It is just weird.<br /><br />Like some wag suggested, genetic engineering is reaching the point where children can be designed from the ground up so dwarfs could have children who are not congenitally damaged but naturally short with broad shoulders and a penchant for broadswords, battle-axes and making good beer and masonry. <br /><br />Deaf parents could arrange for kids without hearing through their ears but maybe some weird-ass EM sense. Who knows. I suspect once people can design their kids (beyond picking their mates) they'll make Olympic Athletes that look like models and think like PhD candidates. Only a few will look to Khazad Dum or Santa's workshop for their kids.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48172892416026533942010-12-02T07:44:22.624-08:002010-12-02T07:44:22.624-08:00Is there a tiny pecker identity group?
Daily Kos<i>Is there a tiny pecker identity group?</i><br /><br />Daily KosSGOTInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39439597634328821512010-12-02T02:19:33.232-08:002010-12-02T02:19:33.232-08:00anony-mouse said...
Southpaws live shorter lives ...<i> anony-mouse said...<br /><br />Southpaws live shorter lives on average than normal people.</i><br /><br />This may be all over the internet, but it is a myth. See <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=7936949&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.junkscience.com/news2/leftmort.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />Yes, I'm left-handed. I pine for the return of sinistral greatness to NFL quarterbacking, where today the torch is carried only by ... Michael Vick. While we're at it, why is it that on golf courses 98% of the players swing the club on the right side of their body, but on baseball diamonds lots of batters stand on the right side of the plate? And on hockey rinks sometimes it seems like at least half of the players shoot left -- something that requires left-handed sticks, which seem to be produced and sold in approximately equal numbers to right-handed sticks?CJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22962123847702924722010-12-02T00:53:49.706-08:002010-12-02T00:53:49.706-08:00A distinguished southpaw whom nobody has mentioned...A distinguished southpaw whom nobody has mentioned on this thread to date: C.P.E. Bach, most musically eminent son of <b>the</b> Bach. C.P.E. - for all his skills as composer and keyboard player - never learned to be a virtuoso violinist, because (you guessed it) he was left-handed.R. J. Stovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67036594126994977282010-12-02T00:48:40.082-08:002010-12-02T00:48:40.082-08:00I am a left-hander and (for 95% of the time) ex-st...I am a left-hander and (for 95% of the time) ex-stutterer, belonging to the first generation in Australia of schoolkids who <i>weren't</i> penalized for being left-handed. <br /><br />Until about 1965, it was just taken for granted in Australian schools - particularly Australian schools out in the boondocks - that if you were born left-handed, the teachers would nag you and if necessary whack you into right-handedness <i>or else</i>. But I started school in 1967, in the boondocks, just after this procedure had died out. Thus, as a kid, when I wrote in public and revealed my left-handedness, I was frequently asked: "Don't you get punished for being left-handed?" Well, no, I didn't. <br /><br />It's accordingly hard for me to believe that George VI's stammer resulted from enforced abandonment of left-handedness, because if it had been, then surely until recently schools would have been crawling with ex-left-handed stammerers. They weren't.<br /><br />My impression is that stuttering is easier to fix than stammering. I have never stammered. As a kid and adolescent I used to stutter, but by being trained to slow down my speech and to breathe more slowly - as well as, oddly enough, to sing, which seemed to be especially helpful - I gradually overcame stuttering. Today I stutter only if unusually tired or nervous.Arnoldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49260184341219760132010-12-01T20:53:51.810-08:002010-12-01T20:53:51.810-08:00i've done a decent amount of research into han...i've done a decent amount of research into handedness, and there IS attention paid to left handed people as a group.<br /><br />definitely in small arms, most new weapons are now deliberately designed to be ambidextrous. i've also seen various tool makers, not all of them, but many, who have switched up their design process to produce ambidextrous hand tools and power tools. this makes things more useful for lefties, but more importantly, it makes them safer.<br /><br />in sports, not only do left handed pitchers do better, but left handed tennis players do better, and left handed boxers do better. i believe evander holyfield went 0-3 against left handed boxers. i'd have to go back and check but i think that was the number i came up with. so being left handed and good, was more important to beating him, than being right handed and great.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14709956064594421172010-12-01T20:07:04.513-08:002010-12-01T20:07:04.513-08:00I meant "Dutch" not "Butch".I meant "Dutch" not "Butch".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47551529069162859962010-12-01T20:06:23.220-08:002010-12-01T20:06:23.220-08:00Butch Boy:
Answer: there is a bunch who call thems...Butch Boy:<br /><i>Answer: there is a bunch who call themselves the neurodiversity movement (they are a few high-functioning autistics and their supporters). I think most people in the autism community consider them loons or Big Pharma trolls.</i><br /><br />If anything, the neurodiversity movement considers the rest of the autism community to be the loons, Big Pharma trolls, and self-hating establishment sellouts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34546795102148574432010-12-01T20:03:37.915-08:002010-12-01T20:03:37.915-08:00SFG:
I don't know how far this is going to get...SFG:<br /><i>I don't know how far this is going to get. I doubt Asperger's was such a huge deal before the collapse of industry; you just got a factory job or worked as a skilled tradesman. Now that everything's social...</i><br /><br />You got that backwards.<br /><br />Before the collapse of industry, and before the public availability of the Internet, everything was <b>more</b> "social" than now. There was more of the gossipy small-town locker room atmosphere, even in big cities. Career-wise, more depended on the Good Old Boys Network and knowing all the right people.<br /><br />Sure, the Internet is putting more people in touch with more people - but not the ones that judge character by haircuts and nervous tics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16474128415105970042010-12-01T16:18:13.036-08:002010-12-01T16:18:13.036-08:00I would have a lot more sympathy for the Asperger&...<i>I would have a lot more sympathy for the Asperger's identity group if they'd chosen a term other than "neurotypical" for non-Asperger's people.</i><br /><br />I'm pretty sure "neurotypical" was coined by one person or a small team of neurologists. I don't really think it was voted on or anything.B322https://www.blogger.com/profile/18257802768718375656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63103883885207654252010-12-01T13:21:40.526-08:002010-12-01T13:21:40.526-08:00Jim O said...
Slightly off-topic, perhaps, bu...Jim O said...<br /><br /> Slightly off-topic, perhaps, but aren't the autistic also evolving into a 'community' like those born deaf? Or so I hear.<br /><br />Answer: there is a bunch who call themselves the neurodiversity movement (they are a few high-functioning autistics and their supporters). I think most people in the autism community consider them loons or Big Pharma trolls.Dutch Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687679491743923216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89777051495010270142010-12-01T11:25:13.868-08:002010-12-01T11:25:13.868-08:00It's K-k-Ken, c--c-c-oming to k-k-kill me.
RE...<i>It's K-k-Ken, c--c-c-oming to k-k-kill me.</i><br /><br />REVENGE!Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43600799214758355292010-12-01T09:13:59.822-08:002010-12-01T09:13:59.822-08:00"It's worth comparing two kinds of deaf p...<i>"It's worth comparing two kinds of deaf people: those who start out deaf and thus learn sign language, and those who gradually go deaf. The first form a small but rather fierce identity politics group, since their primary language is signing."</i><br /><br />No, I think the first form a small but rather fierce identity politics group because they have no choice. They can't pass as part of the larger group of hearing people. Kind of like how Obama chooses to self-identify as black.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56133765017522459412010-12-01T09:13:27.251-08:002010-12-01T09:13:27.251-08:00The internet is really the ultimate enabler for id...The internet is really the ultimate enabler for identity politics. There are groups for everyone, and in time, I expect more and more of these groups to organize into entities with political goals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20851424595333294862010-12-01T09:08:41.920-08:002010-12-01T09:08:41.920-08:00I always suspected that Buckley's stammering w...I always suspected that Buckley's stammering was an affectation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70898990161945061172010-12-01T09:04:19.378-08:002010-12-01T09:04:19.378-08:00"Then how do you explain the fact that fat pe..."Then how do you explain the fact that fat people have become a weighty political lobby? "<br /><br />You have a point because there is, of course, a remedy for fatness--reduce fat/caloric intake, increase exercise.<br /><br />However, what I should have added is that the stutterer finds no group of stutterers around him. Yeah, there are other stutterers, but they aren't readily found. Even if they were, I doubt they'd form a club. There's no street cred, no status derived from such a handicap. Maybe some rapper or rock icon will make stuttering into a cool thing. Then, all might change. <br /><br />Same with fat kids in high school. Our schools are loaded with overweight and morbidly obese kids. However, there are no clubs (that I know of) for fat kids as there are clubs for gays and ethnics.<br /><br />What does exist is a walking class that gives phys ed credit. It was designed for those kids who detest participation in traditional sports and for those for whom participation in sports is simply too difficult-- the obese. <br /><br />Here's what happened: the class became very popular with an assortment of kids, including both sexes. However, after a few short weeks, most of the obese began to cut class, then stopped going altogether. I had two such kids in one class. They shared their excitement about the class when it first began. When I inquired about how it was going, I could tell their interest had waned. A short time after that, I checked with the teacher and discovered that both had simply stopped going to class. I questioned each only to find that their lethargy in this activity matched their lethargy in just about everything else. <br /><br />Their weight is a symptom of everything else wrong in their lives, but the bottom line is that food and the tv and electronics have become their best friends, their family. They go home to them as soon as they can.<br /><br />Only when the obese reach adulthood do some seem to develop the "fat is beautiful and we are victims" attitudes. I've not yet heard that from a kid. The self-hate is too great.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77925446585232992032010-12-01T08:22:35.906-08:002010-12-01T08:22:35.906-08:00People who became deaf don't make a good polit...People who became deaf don't make a good political identity group because a) they want something very limited and concentrated, b) other than age (to some extent), they have nothing in common, and c) if any particular deaf person gets what they want, they're no longer functionally a member of the group<br /><br />Blacks make a good political identity group because a) they want more money, power, and respect - very open-ended goals, b) they mostly have the experience of a common culture and of racism from whites in common with each other, and c) if you're black, you're always going to be black.<br /><br />Most of the examples of groups which haven't fallen into identity politics match the "became deaf" list, while those who are forming political identities generally match the blacks. Except for fat people, sort of. Fat people find it very hard to actually follow through on what it takes to be not-fat, they are discriminated against in ways which don't rationally relate to their being fat, and "respect" and "acceptance" are pretty big open-ended goals. So unless we discover that the obesity epedemic of the past 30 years is actually pathogenic, fat as identity actually makes some sense.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389602137217799305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43155080619320875042010-12-01T08:07:24.729-08:002010-12-01T08:07:24.729-08:00"Mid forty-ish men who listened to prog rock ...<i>"Mid forty-ish men who listened to prog rock as teenagers are another non-identity group."</i><br /><br />Given that prog rock was a 70s phenomenon, they'll be 50ish.<br /><br />In the UK they have <a href="http://www.planetrock.com/" rel="nofollow">their own radio station.</a>Labanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15836534594805868042010-12-01T05:37:47.031-08:002010-12-01T05:37:47.031-08:00bu, but .. But whA, wha, about u, us fo, folk wH w...bu, but .. But whA, wha, about u, us fo, folk wH who, who o only stut stuter stutter stutTER (left hand whacks back of right hand) in their writing? We rarely write because we are so .. misunderstu ..stu stood (right hand ....ka, Ka .. Katananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80960934052795467602010-12-01T03:37:33.607-08:002010-12-01T03:37:33.607-08:00In fact adults with IQs more than one SD below the...<i>In fact adults with IQs more than one SD below the median do have an interest group to support them. It's called the Democratic Party.</i><br /><br />Maybe if we're including all the blacks and Hispanics. Low-IQ Whites are going to be strongly Republican.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91965948874266173562010-12-01T03:34:28.940-08:002010-12-01T03:34:28.940-08:00I would have a lot more sympathy for the Asperger&...I would have a lot more sympathy for the Asperger's identity group if they'd chosen a term other than "neurotypical" for non-Asperger's people. To me, the word "neurotypical" seems like it should mean "pertaining to neurotype", in the same way that stereotypical means "pertaining to stereotype".<br /><br />The way people on Wrong Planet and other sites use the word makes me think of some valley girl saying "typical".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60410694034336028962010-12-01T02:16:03.078-08:002010-12-01T02:16:03.078-08:00"Good point. Non-dwarf short people simlarly ..."Good point. Non-dwarf short people simlarly (AFAIK) have no identity politics associated with them. Nor do "Touretters." Nor do adults with IQs more than one SD below the median but above retardation."<br /><br />In fact adults with IQs more than one SD below the median do have an interest group to support them. It's called the Democratic Party.John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.com