hii <3 is your url a reference to the club in la? or is it just a coincidence?
the club in LA and my URL are both a reference to the folkloric “bar sinister”– a supposed heraldic element that symbolized that the person or family was the result of bastardry. (bar sinister meaning a bar across the heraldic shield facing left, aka sinister)
Something very interesting here that little people mentioned before!! Sinister = left. That’s what it originally meant, at least in Spanish :3 When you speak about a right handed person, we use the word ’diestro’; and the antonym is siniestro (sinister). I am unaware if it’s true but I’ve been told left handed people were considered ‘evil’ so siniestro/sinister started being used as a derogative term against us.
It is absolutely true that left handed (sinister) people were considered evil, or immoral.
Until the 1960s in the united states, it was common to force naturally left handed people to write and work with their right hands.
The terms come from latin “dexter” (like dexterity) and “sinister”.
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