2.3.4 |
PARTIAL: LATERALITY-BASED |
We shall only discuss one form of partial physical
subanthropic exclusivism here which does not relate to questions
of sexuality, discharge of bodily waste matter and nudity, namely
physical laterality-based exclusivism (X.289). The object of this
exism is the habitual use of only one or both
sides of the body. (Not only is it 'partial' because a 'side' is merely a
'part' of the body, but also because it always concerns certain
parts of the body like somebody's hands.) Altho physical
laterality certainly does not only concern the habitual use of
one's hands, we shall confine our attention here to this
integral manifestation. But also hands can be used in different
ways for different activities, and we shall also confine
handedness-based exclusivism (X.578) to writing-related
handedness-based exclusivism (X.1157). (Altho 'natural'
sociobiologists may object that our hands were never supposed or
intended to be used to write with, this is irrelevant.)
Writing-related handedness-based exclusivism is exism re the
habitual use of only one or both hands when writing or drawing.
The lateral manifestations of this unitary
irrelevantism can
serve as good examples for other unitary manifestations, both
physical laterality-based and other ones. These manifestations
are (with their binary-decimal numbers):
- unilateral (12): single-handedness-related (exism re
the habitual use of only one hand, as opposed to ambidexterity);
- bilateral (13): double-handedness- or
ambidexterity-centered (exism re the habitual use of both hands);
- supercomplemental (24): single-handedness-centered
(exism re the single-handedness of human or humanlike beings,
whether left-or right-handed);
- complemental (25): complemental (single-)handedness-based
(exism re the left- or right-handedness of human or
anthropomorphically conceived beings);
- first complemental (50): left-handedness-centered or
manual sinistral (exism re the habitual or much easier
use of the left hand); and
- second complemental (51): right-handedness-centered or
manual dextral (exism re the habitual or much easier
use of the right hand).
Componential manifestations of (writing-related) handedness-based
exism are:
- abnegational exism re ambidextrous people
or manual ambidexterity;
- aggrandizemental exism re right-handed people or manual
dexterity; and
- abnegational exism re left-handed people or the use of the
left hand.
A lingual operation of ambidexterity-centered exism is the infiltration of
the abnegational component into the language, for example, thru
the pejorative use of words like double-handed and
ambidextrous. A similar manifestation of manual sinistral exism
involves the abnegational use of the words left(-handed),
sinister and gauche. An evaluative opposite of these lingual
operations is the infiltration of aggrandizemental (writing-related)
manual dextral exism into the language. Examples are
the aggrandizemental connotation of the words right(-handed)
and dextrous or dexterity. As we have seen so many times
before, a god is a perfect instrument for exclusivity and a
demon for exclusion. It need therefore not surprise us when
theodemonists believe,
or once believed, that 'the devil' would be left-handed.
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