I don't know if it's as much discrimination as a lack of thoughtfulness on the part of those who manufacture hand tools, school desks, etc., but I'm sure that left handed people do feel like they are being discriminated against.

In a similar manner, I feel like car companies discriminate against me because of my height.

Not so much anymore, but Mom always told me they would whack her hand in school when they caught her writing left handed. Ain't that some bullshit?

I am not left-handed, but my mother was, and I can about imagine that people can discriminate against "lefties" without even realizing that they're doing it, simply by automatically producing products catering to the right-handed "majority" (or what may seem as such). I don't know the availability of left-handed products; I do know they make left-handed scissors, but that's all I can think of right now.

Right on!

I personally think you all are idiots because I'm left handed and I know I'm being discriminated against. They make no products for left handed people. They don't even have left handed notebooks. I have to write on the back page of my notebook just to work.

Suprised to see Gone Away felt descriminated against when I notice some of the comments on homosexuality I've read.

I think people who are left handed face some discrimination and more so in their early schooldays than anywhere else. Simply because at school they try and persuade students to write with their right hand as certain products don't cater for the left.

While left-handed folks have to deal with products with the tendency to be made for right-handed folks (such as scissors), but I don't see a lot of actual discrimination because of it. It wasn't always the case--since the left hand was used as the cleaning hand in many cultures before, the left hand was seen as unclean. The German word for left handed is supposedly linkish, which means awkward, and Russians use the word levja, meaning left-handed, as an insult. For a long time, left-handedness was thought to be a behavior which needed to be corrected. All this, because someone didn't like what hand someone wrote with? Well, it's not as big of an issue now. There's a lot more little fun facts about left-handedness at http://www.umkc.edu/imc/lefties.htm.