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.
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...
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...