Is it just me or is food packaging too complex and challenging for the y-chromosome carrying part of the population? Whilst having the upper hand opening jars, at the slightest sniff of an instruction ("peel me"), my H tosses the offending packet my way for me to open. He is incapable of opening packets as they're designed to be opened- to reduce mess and remain usable until the product is consumed in its entirety. H has taken to hacking re-sealable packets with knives or scissors because he couldn't figure out how to open a simple seal.
I once watched my B-in-L struggle for over 10 minutes trying to open a new, family sized tub of yogurt. His mind couldn't compute peeling back a section of perforated plastic to wedge his finger under the lip of the lid and lift it off. I was fascinated..it was like watching another specie.
These are intelligent men, yet they seem absolutely stumped by these simple and logical (to me) daily encounters.
Is it that food packaging is designed for female logic or the female mind? Can we even use those terms in our woke world?? Women have different thought processes to men, it makes neither superior, complimentary hopefully. But in this instance it seems to me that women outshine male counterparts in understanding and manipulating food packaging- ha slightly counter-productive feminism...!
Or is it just that men balk at any instructions at all and go in with knives and scissors caveman style?