Most people in this world scoop their ice cream and have no problems, unless it’s like very frozen ice cream but that’s an exception. But about 10% of the world has a hard problem using an ice cream scooper. And of course, these people are lefties.
Like with many other things around us, ice cream scoopers are just useless for us lefties. I am a lefty and I use the ice cream scooper to just scoop, and then use my own pressure so the ice cream can go in my bowl or cone. The scraper is absolutely useless to lefties as it’s upside down which causes it to not function properly.
This is not the only thing that a left-hander has to struggle with in their everyday life. At school, there are many other things that lefties just have to get used to. From pencil lead stains on your hand, to righty school desks, to spiral notebooks, and to scissors. Everything is just designed specifically for righties. It’s just the world that lefties have to live through almost every day.
With ice cream scoopers, I really don’t care anymore. I, for one, rarely eat ice cream, so scooping ice cream isn’t really something I should complain about. But for a person who loves eating ice cream, what do they have to do? They either just use my method of scooping it with the scooper and just using pressure for it to fall, use a large spoon or something like that, or they have to buy a left-handed scooper.
Everything that causes difficulties for lefties have their own left-handed specific option. There are left-handed pens to avoid smearing, school desks with a left armrest instead of a right one, spiral notebooks with the spiral on the right, and left-handed scissors. But why does everything, every little object, have to be designed specifically for righties? Well, that’s obvious. If 90% of the world are righties, then of course everything will be designed to comfort them more than lefties. So, for now, us lefties just have to continue to struggle in this righty-designed world.
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As a leftie myself, I can relate to a lot of these struggles. I find myself limited to many things fit for righties like you mentioned (notebooks and chairs). However, over time, I’ve come to just accept and adapt. We’re a part of 10% of all people on Earth, and that makes us unique in our own way. Besides, it’d be less time consuming for me personally to learn to be ambidextrous.
ReplyDeleteHaving friends who are lefties, I can see the problems that you have. I once sat next to a lefty and it sucked. I am a righty so when my friend and I write, we bump elbows. The majority of the world is righties but some are lefties. There should be more products that are lefties so that there is a choice between the two.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who is right handed, I am fortunate to not have to suffer through these struggles, but what I understand from this blog is that we should make more left handed accessible items more common, just because only 10% of the world would need, that’s still 10% of people that struggle everyday unnecessarily.
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