Woah, you're so right: I live my dexter privilege without even thinking about it My apologies to any sinister folks out there.
And this reminds me to take let-handed single-handed operation into account when designing mobile UIs.
(Although you still have to pull the fountain pen -- I assume you're talking about the speed increase of writing continuously rather than printing each character).
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "have to pull the pen"; It's been some years since I last used a fountain pen, but there are basically two options when you're left-handed. One is to mirror your hand horizontally, and the other is to mirror in the plane of the nib (which is at 45 degrees to the rules on the paper). So your hand ends up above and to the left of the letter you're writing. I found that much more natural and easy to do, but it requires having blotting paper under your fist to avoid smudging everything.
(The third option is the Da Vinci one of mirroring your hand and the writing, but that's no use if you want other people to read it.)
So if your hand is to the left of the nib and the writing is going from left to right, I think that counts as "pushing"?
The third option is doable though if you write on paper that is thin enough to be seen on the other side - then just write on the back of the paper, reversed :)
And this reminds me to take let-handed single-handed operation into account when designing mobile UIs.
(Although you still have to pull the fountain pen -- I assume you're talking about the speed increase of writing continuously rather than printing each character).