| Comment | On your second point I find this to be a really useful way to think about it. Roughly 15% of the population are left handed. This has been stable since around 1950. If you go back just 15 years before to 1935 the incidence of left handedness was only 2%. Why did lefthandedness increase from 2% to 15% in 15 years? Because WWII happened. Before WWII children were told lefthandedness was unnatural, it wasn't unusual to beat it out of children and force them to be right handed. WWII meant you suddenly had a fighting force of men who were god awful with a right handed bolt rifle nut fine with a left handed rifle. That culturally made it totally fine to be left handed. If you look at the stats it seems like the population suddenly became more lefthanded but the reality was they were always left handed, society just accepted it more. Its the same with trans issues, mental health, things like autism and ADHD. They've always existed but it's only now that they are socially and culturally being accepted more. |
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