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[-] jared@mander.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago

Without reading is it about handedness or political leaning?

[-] moonlight@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

I thought it was political at first, too.

There's a strong correlation there.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Empathy. Understanding what causes emotional reactions and building on that rather than doing your own routine and being mad others won't agree with you.

Conservative comedians continually get "canceled" because their act only punches down and makes fun of other people, so their content only resonates with their own demographic. They lose audience because their content goes stale. There's a difference between the punchline being that the target is gay vs the punchline being what a gay person does and capturing that nuance. Adam Corolla had the same boring complaints about society, about economy cars, about not seeing enough tits, about sucking dick, over and over. Robin Williams was the full spectrum of range from Good Will Hunting to his stand up to his Genie and Doubtfire and Birdcage (separating from acting because of his amount of successful adlib).

Conservative actors only know one role: their idealized selves. I bet you they're a tough guy with no emotional range, shadowing John Wayne pretending to be a cowboy. Joe Pesci is a real NYC tough guy. That's his act, condescending tough guy. Even with his peak of comedic performance, Vinny, he was just the same character but brought hilarity by being woefully out of place for the plot. Robert De Niro was a theater kid. He makes bank as a mobster but imagine trying to watch Pesci play Captain Shakespeare in Stardust.

Conservative painters/physical media artists... I can't think of any. Maybe I'm just uninformed. Closest I can think of are some photographers that produce images I call "informational" rather than artistic. Capturing a moment in time as if the street view car just drove by, not capturing a mood or feeling.

Anyway, I wonder if the handedness is actually rooted in which kids were tormented in a strict Christian school vs who had a more explorative and welcoming upbringing. Not that people don't come out as lefties alter, but that's gotta hamper their skill-honing years for art.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

conservative actors tend to gravitate towards authoritarian roles in movies and show, almost always its a leadership role. people like pratt, sinese, are obsessed with military/police leadership in cinema, they dont like being 2nd place, pratt just made it more obvious because hes a nepo-actor that whined about roles recent years, and sinese had a epiphany when he visited vet hospitals , he started to virtue signal and ingratiate into that community as if hes one of the boys.

good comedians punch up and down and usually learn from thier mistakes, the down usually isnt a way to denigrate a already persecuted group, but conservatives ones always and only target specific groups in a negative way often around race, and against the political "left", they often fail to make fun of said groups, and htey are forced to stitch, edit usually videos in a way it makes them look "owning, a woke leftist".

theres like 2 youtubers showing the "poor and destitute areas of the us" but its almost always targeting BLUE areas that are poor, never the red areas in RED STATES or red areas in blue areas, yea we know you are conservative jumping the hate the left/california train(tyler, and sanitello or whatever is name is)

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Makes sense that if your political views include that whether you deserve to stay alive is tied to how much value you create for shareholders, you spend less time nurturing your creativity.

[-] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, it got me 😅

[-] loomy@lemy.lol 3 points 3 weeks ago

obviously written by a rightey

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

its hard to be right winger and a Scientist, and not trying to use pseudoscience or EUGENICS, or religion, which already makes you a quack "expert". like the alleged scientist framing psychology in a race-based way.

(I think they mean those of us who are literally left-hand dominant)

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Additional meta-analysis confirmed that left-handers are overrepresented among artists and musicians – but not architects, as is often claimed. Expanding their investigation beyond those fields, the team re-analyzed data from a large study drawing upon U.S. government surveys with information on occupations and handedness. The data included nearly 12,000 individuals in more than 770 professions, which were ranked by the creativity each required. By this measure combining “originality” and “inductive reasoning,” physicists and mathematicians ranked alongside fine artists as the most creative jobs. When considering the full range of professions, the researchers found, left-handers were underrepresented in those that required the most creativity.

[-] SolidShake@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Because we have to create a way to write notes without smearing the ink on the page at a very early age.

[-] zout@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

Just do what I did, learn to write with your right hand. As a bonus only you will be able to read your own handwriting, at least some of the time.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Have you considered medical school? It sounds like you have a natural predisposition to the field.

[-] Hule@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I wrote with my left before school. They told me the teacher will beat me for it, so I relearnt with my right hand.

Ugly writing, and I mostly forgot with my left. But I still couldn't hit a nail with my right..

[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought the whole left brain/right brain thing was discredited already. This appears to confirm it's not the case.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

The left and the right brain actually do different things in people. Just look at the epyleptic studies where they surgically separated the two halves of the brain. When blocking off the right part of the eye, those people were not able to name every day objects like a pencil. But they could pick it up and use it. When blocking off the left side of the eye they were able to call it a pencil, but not use it.

[-] monotremata@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, to an extent they do different things, but that's not what the person you were replying to was talking about. For several years there was this idea that "left-handed people are right-brain dominant, and right-handed people are left-brain dominant." And along with that went this whole astrology-tinged thing about the right brain being the creative half and the left brain being the analytic half and whatnot. It's pretty much nonsense.

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is right-hand propaganda

[-] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe so. But righties make trash.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

they are good and producing trash, nothing else.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

I think the issue is the study treated it as a binary thing...

Handedness isn't binary, very few things are when talking about human anatomy.

Like, 4 wheel drive is an equal 50/50 split. Then obviously full front/rear drive.

But "all wheel drive" can be anything from 80/20 to 60/40, or theoretically any random ratio.

So while people who prefer their left hand. There's a difference between a sleight preference and someone who's right hand is so useless it's easier to hold a guitar upside down.

Those people at the extreme end may be more creative when isolated out as a subgroup

[-] zout@fedia.io 0 points 3 weeks ago

Or maybe they just stand out holding the guitar upside down, making people see a pattern that isn't really there. For instance, while Jimi Hendrix played the guitar upside down, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck did not.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

You didn't understand my comment

But instead of asking questions you...

Just did whatever it was you tried to do there.

If you want to get better, ask more questions. Of someone else, obviously.

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