It's funny, you see. It was meant to be funny back in the day it was created. Surely.
You see, I come from a country where we have a long history of female rulers. And I mean in the days when kings and queen wielded real power; before they just became figureheads.
I am not young; they don't call me the grumpy old woman for nothing. I have been around for a long time. So I don't have any hangups, as they used to say in the olden days, about ads like the one pictured above.
No, I don't think it's degrading to women; I think it's funny. Often I can't open a ketchup bottle or a coke bottle, so I ask someone with stronger wrists than me to do it. It might be Gayle, who is exceptionally good at these things (and a girl) or, if there's one handy, a bloke. Or if I'm at home alone, I use that floppy white rubber thing that lives in the kitchen drawer.
But I don't feel inferior, or degraded, or any of that crap, simply because I don't always have the muscle to open a bottle.
It's like being in the supermarket and not being able to reach something from a high shelf. I ask a taller person to reach it for me. Sometimes that taller person is a bloke, sometimes a girl, but I really don't feel inferior or degraded.
I just feel shorter than them. Because I am.
That's all.
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