It is sexist, but I feel like at a different level. Growing up I was never expected to ever need to grocery shop, so no effort was made to familiarize me with the process. It was never said out loud, but skills like that were just assumed to be for women. No one said you couldn’t, they just looked at you weird and you internalized that when you were young and just didn’t think about it again. I am old but not that old, we had cell phones when I was a kid but our most advanced app was snake.

People don’t realize how far we’ve come so fast but then also don’t realize how unevenly applied that is. There are still a tremendous amount of men living objectively successful lives raised the exact same way I was that would be completely inexperienced with the idea of a produce aisle. If you’re rich, poor or just in a specific culture you can still easily skip a lot of seemingly very basic skills and still be “well adjusted” by most metrics.