Eli5: Why is it almost impossible to use scissors with your less dexterous hand, especially for cutting items such as plastics and rubber?

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Eli5: Why is it almost impossible to use scissors with your less dexterous hand, especially for cutting items such as plastics and rubber?

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As a lot of others have said, scissors need you to put pressure on the blades in a certain way, and most scissors you’ll ever find are right-handed. I cut my nails with scissors (I was taught that way and clippers make me cringe), and … well cutting the nails of my right hand requires me to sort of hold the things backwards in my left hand so that the pressure goes in the right place.