Intuition

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I don't know if there's really something to say about that. But I'm upset. I can't bear anymore to hear "intuition is into every woman" and even "this womanity is also in every man". That sounds so stupid to me. Aren't this differences cultural ?
I thought I got two X too. But I don't have any of this intuition. So I'm not a woman ?!

I do have intuitions, but they're not particularly womanly.

Intuition is what tells you that it doesn't really take 6 cups of water to make a box of Kraft macaroni and cheese.

If that's true, then I wasn't a woman for a very long time.

IMO, it's something that can develop with practice, but said practice can only happen if you're around people to "practice" on. Therefore, I didn't really notice mine until I started socializing more (at work, school, whatever).

Don't let remarks like that upset you. People who say such things usually are making gross generalizations from something THEY heard somewhere with no real basis in fact.

Thank you for your answers.
It seems to be an old prejudice, sticked to a male chauvinist point of view, maybe older than christian religion...
And I wouldn't be very surprised if men were atually more logical and less intuitive than women. But let's not forget that culture builds minds ! I think that is linked for example to the facts that boys receive little cars and practical games, where as little girls receive dolls, dresses, and other social stuffs...
Have you heard the theory of the "extreme male brain" about Asperger ?

I heard about the extreme male brain thing when I was researching autism/aspergers to write a paper about it. I do believe that because I am a girl, and when I read articles about the ways girls and guys think, they line up with that theory.

intuition lies within everyone, but just not as strongly in everyone. intuition is a biological thing and can be nurtured or not so there are 6 billion variations in intuitive sense.

carl jung classifies two spectrums on which all human interaction / behaviour lies. Intuition - Sensation (processing info through sensory input instead of processing info through your gut more or less) and Thinking - feeling. He says that every person has his own unique mix of, but to have a fairly stable personality you should develop towards the center of these two spectrums. One of these sides will always be more natural or easier for you and in autism, lets be fair, most of us are Sensation-Thinking types. While as when you looked at HSP (high sensitive peoples) they are usually always the intuition-feeling types.

So i believe intuition lies within everybody, and that alot of women are inclined to be more intuitive by whatever. i cannot say how great the nature percentage is because we dont really have any data on that. humans are by nature nurture types.

I don't like it when people assign important qualities to one gender. I especially don't like it when people discuss what it is to be a man, and they name qualities such as courage, strength, and independence. It makes it sound like they are exclusively male and that women aren't supposed to be brave, strong, or independent. Intuition isn't a female quality; it just happens to be more common among women than it is among men. That doesn't mean that all women have it or that all men don't.

I don't agree with this "thinking - feeling" theory. I think it's an archaic separation as body and soul.
I define intuition as a feeling of evidence for the truth or not of a proposition without succeeding to explain it, a primal theoretical proposition.
And I hate when people do that. I can't see on a face if someone is a bad guy, and I can't bear those who say they feel it by their intuition. Because they can't prove it, because they can be wrong, somehow influenced by their stupid prejudices. Did you know that the majority, which swears it makes no difference of personality according to the race, will actually "feel" a black guy on a picture more funny ? This is a prejudice. And I'm happy if I can't have that.