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I didn’t realize scissors were ‘handed’. My right-handed privilege is showing.
Yes, and when write with a pen or pencil on paper it’s easier to smear your work as the writing hand is trailing, not leading.
Coffee mugs with logos have in mind which hand you hold them with.
Insulated bottles with handles and sip lids assume righthandedness.
One improvement has been smart watches since the screen can flip over if you switch wrists.
Right-handed people writing right-to-left languages (there are a lot of them) can sympathize, I guess
Coffee mugs that don't have the logo opposite of the handle are just stupid.
When I got my smart watch the first thing I wanted to do was add a watch face like the old Goofy lefty watches that went anti-clockwise. Thus far I have not found one.
Be the change you want to see, make one
I wish I knew how.
I’m a lefty who made it almost half a century on this earth without realizing I could just go out and buy left handed scissors, so don’t feel too bad.
i have a few pair of "good" scissors. the duck scissors. the curved creepy looking scissors. those ones are mine. the righties can use the other ones. those two pair are mine, since i can actually cut with them.
I don’t want to try and take away your privilege but You can buy scissors that are "hand neutral."
No you cannot, though some manufacturers like to say so.
The grips are neutral, but the blades are righty.
Pick up some scissors and open them like you're cutting something. You'll see the top blade on the right and the bottom on the left. Because you're holding them in your right hand the bottom/left blade is closer to you. This gives you a clear view of the cutting line of whatever you're cutting. Even if you flip them it's still true.
For a lefty this line is blocked by the top blade.
Lefty scissors have the blades reversed. Try a pair sometime. It's doable but not pleasant.
Ohhhhh, it's about the blades! Now I finally get it. Thanks!
You’re definitely correct. I just like that they don’t make my hand feel bad.
"Hand neutral " scissors are still right handed scissors that do not have molded finger holes for righties. They still are built backwards for a lefty. All in all they work in a pinch, but generally are garbage.
I have a 100% symmetric kitchen scissors that gets used for just about everything. How is it backwards / garbage?
Hold your scissors like you're cutting something. The top blade should be on the right side and the bottom edge that whatever you're cutting rests on will be on the left facing you. This is true even if flipped.
It would be reversed on left handed scissors. This is the important difference. It's more common nowadays for the grips to be ambidextrous, but the blade is still an issue. Of course lefties CAN cut things with righty scissors. But try out a lefty pair sometime. You'll find the blade blocks your view of what you're doing. You can't easily see the line that you're cutting.
Interesting, hadn't thought of anything but the grip affecting ambidextricity. I guess part of it is I don't do precise cutting that requires me to pay attention to the blade.
Even when you do not need to see exactly what you are cutting, physics of the blade orientation, and your hand movements, pull the blades apart when you use right-handed scissors in your left hand.
As you can see, the blades on my left-handed scissors are mirrored to yours, so when I cut my hand movements push the blades together.
My partner is a lefty, and sometimes manufacturers lie about them being hand neutral
It's not possible. The really important part is which blade is on which side. The grips can work for both hands but the blades are righty.
We should all work towards ending the horrors of handedness and the implied moral violence inherent in the system.
The handedness binary is a worn-out social construct
(/s, for anyone who needs it said)
Yeah I got a pair of these. Even as a righty, it's nice to not have to figure out which orientation is correct before you pick it up.
Apparently bread knives are also handed.
A couple weeks ago, after more than three decades on this earth, I discovered for the first time that if I slice the butter from the other end of the stick, I can get a nice clean, straight, vertical cut. Because the butter knife is only beveled on one side.
All my life, I've been slicing butter from the wrong end, and the knife has slipped off a third of the way down every time...
butter late than never
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good for you on using the same butter knife for so long
Well I haven't tested this new discovery on many knives, but I'm certain I've had the same problem with many different ones over the years. At the very least, they're all beveled on at least one side...
A lot of kitchen knives, and other utensils are too.