[lynx23]

I am going to be downvoted to hell for this, but... After reading halfway through the article, I had to check the gender of the author. Because, I feel, this is a rather female POV. A lot of what she says feels touchy-feely to me and doesnt resonate with me at all. Maybe because I am way more inerested in the topic of the meeting then the personal feelings and emotions of the participants. To the point where I might noticed them, but I they mostly dont concern me at all.

[jdthedisciple]

Nope, you are spot on.

I too noticed pretty quickly that this must be female POV.

You can generally tell even just by the word choices ("spidey senses" American women seem to love that phrase for some reason, "super <adjective>", "awry", "weird vibes", ...)

Another instant give-away was "now we've got a compounding situation" - quite a feminine phrasing. Not judging, I mean it sounds almost cute even.

Finally, her idea of "facing each other squarely": a total no-no for men (way too much potenial energy, like two massive electron beams opposing each other), but OK for women.

[detourdog]

Your comment makes me question my masculinity. I would say the desire to communicate and the feelings expressed were feminine. Noee of the phrases you mentioned did I see as clues to gender.

[jdthedisciple]

To be clear I didn't say men never use any of these words individually (except for "spidey senses" I suppose).

Just that their frequent and combined usage in this particular article made me almost hear her voice in my head, including the female cadence and intonation...

[lynx23]

"Weird vibes" is what finally made me check the author name ... I don't even know what "spidey sense" should mean.

[honkdiddy]

It's a reference to a popular property of The Walt Disney Company, wherein a bite from a radioactive spider confers upon the titular character a supernatural ability to sense impending danger.