Even outside of mystical contexts, a persistent idea of “female intuition” implies that women have some innate sense of awareness that men do not. Personally, I’m not convinced that this is true. Even if women seem more sensitized to invisible forces or subtle emotional cues, this most likely has as much to do with socialization as biology. Perhaps people of all genders have the potential to be equally intuitive, but many men have been taught to suppress this, because sensitivity has historically been linked to femininity and weakness.
