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"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.