Study on Women's Brains

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...one in which women "fail" and the other in which we "fail" to listen to women. My same colleague said that she has been thinking that she's supposed to respond to sexual stimulus that doesn't really do anything for her.

This could be all the same thing from different perspectives. Let's posit for a second that the accepted cultural assumptions about what women find appealing are wrong (what ever they are). Someone growing up will be bombarded with the message that they are supposed to be attracted to "x". If the message is pervasive enough a woman could go a long time, including quite a few sexual experiences, without ever having encountered something which she was actually attracted to. She wouldn't have the proper sense of association built up to link the sensation brought around with physical arousal. Now, the average woman on this site isn't going to fit that profile as she has obviously achieved the recognition that the cultural assumption is wrong for her (else she wouldn't be going against it), which would require making the correct associations between situation and response.

End result:

Women out of touch with their sexuality: True (on average)
Female voice ignored: True (drowned out by the cultural onslaught)
Feeling like she is supposed to respond to sexual stimulus that doesn't really do anything for her: True

One elephant, three blind men trying to describe it.