There's a convention in video-conferencing software (such as Microsoft Teams, which my employer favours) of participants clicking the 'Raise Hand' button when they want to interrupt the speaker or ask a question. When this is done, a small icon of a raised hand is overlaid on the person's image on the screen. It is flagrantly discriminatory that this hand is always depicted as a right hand. Thus, this idea is that left-handed people (or people who have lost their right hand in, say, a bizarre gardening accident and don't want to be continually reminded of this) should be able to set a preference for the raised hand icon to be shown as a left hand.
-- hippo, Jun 10 2024

[+] but only if it also has icons available in every possible skin tone. And also some with missing fingers; for gardeners, woodworkers, shop teachers, etc who may have had less severe accidents than losing an entire hand.
-- a1, Jun 10 2024


No, you sit there in your left handed sinfulness, and be sinful, and get used to it!
-- 21 Quest, Jun 11 2024


But this is a question of perspective. From where I sit the hand icon matches the view that I - the prospective hand-raiser - have of my left hand when I am in the act of raising that hand. The hand icon does not contain any detail which would mean that the right-handed, palm-to-user interpretation is correct. Given that the palm-to-audience hand gesture is rude in many cultures (Iraq, Greece, Monmouthshire), Microsoft have done well to avoid using it.
-- calum, Jun 11 2024


Kudos to [calum] for recognising that the culture of Monmouthshire is up there with the great classical civilisations of Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia.
-- pocmloc, Jun 11 2024


[calum] So are you saying it’s actually either discriminatory against right-handed people, or insulting to people from (the big three) Iraq, Greece and Monmouthshire?
-- hippo, Jun 12 2024


I don't want to overstate the part that Greece plays in this, given that the moutza typically has fingers splayed, but yes, those are the only two options. I am, however, relaxed about the extent and impact of any discrimination against right-handed people, as the left-handed minority have many struggles that us right-handers do not (scissors, keivhendt / sinister etc., the left hand of god).
-- calum, Jun 12 2024


Darn those ambidextrous people!

Dang them all to heck!
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 14 2024



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