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

Question

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

In: 687

Answer 1

When you hold right-handed scissors in your right hand, you typically hold the thing you’re cutting in your left hand. This keeps it stable and held against the bottom blade of the scissors (which is on the left) allowing the top blade (the cutting blade on the right) to slice through it.

When you switch hands, the bottom blade is now on the outside and there is nothing on that same side to keep the paper steady. So when the top blade comes down, instead of cutting the paper, it just folds it up.