What exactly is "women's intuition" supposed to be?

Actually I think its an old-fashioned way of belittling women's intelligence, by suggesting that it comes from some mystical emotional place, rather than anywhere rational or from considered analysis of facts, as men's knowledge does. It's been reclaimed lately as just another way of saying "I feel it in my bones." or "I'm sure of this, but I don't have any basis for that." when the feeling is experienced by a woman. Of course, the same feeling could easily be experienced by a man. Usually all it means is that your basis for the belief is in your sub-concious, rather than something you've conciously thought out, which is why it seems to be correct so often.

pick up a copy of gavin debecker's book "protecting the gift". it is a poignant and extraordinary piece of work that i consider a must read, especially for parents and parents to be. the book gives a detailed explanation of what exactly intuition is and how we all are born with it. unfortunately, as debecker explains, as we grow, we start to ignore this gift, and rely on rationale. intuition is a "knowing" without thought. it is not tangible and that is why people often ignore their intuition, only to have regret later.

what a load of crap. women and men are interdependent on one another. we can't evolve separately. that would be like saying "oh look mark women are starting to grow wings, man i wish i was a woman so i could evolve too." intuition has to deal with the situation, nothing to do with sex. "womanly" or "motherly" intuition deals with situations where a mother feels that maybe her child is getting into trouble. this would be becuase time after time little tommy has been caught torturing the cat. it has nothing to do with sex. the beliefs above are biased. you could just as easily say that men have "manly" or "fatherly" intuition.

Intuition is E V O L V E D ."

Consider that human SENSE is very primal: smell, sound, sight, touch and taste.
From these senses comes experience. From experience comes the FEELING (emotion) of what that experience meant. From that feeling comes the INTELLIGENCE (logic) that informs decision making. All evolved.

Consider that a sixth sense (intuition) is that which comes precisely from the totality of your sensorial experience thus far. For example, when you look at a book you can "intuit" just how much effort you will have to expend to lift it. Of course, you may be surprised (heavier or lighter than you though), but it is this sense memory that is in service here.

One can suppose that all adaptations become second nature in the normal human experience.

Men, generally speaking, equally unique in their own innate talents, are not "physically cultivated" in their own biological sense memory to the extent that women are. Women invest TIME in menstruation, child birth and child rearing. This is a purely biological fact, regardless of race, culture, education or religion.

Simply put, a female human being, literally has to deal with the realities of the human Life Cycle. She has a biological experience: a fuller impression and expression of the ability to sense logically for the overall benefit and welfare of her children. Her Life Cycle sense memory develops pointedly and differently from men. It is to this that comes, I believe, the expression "women's intuition."

Their nipples act like satellite dishes and pick up signals.

Women feel inferior to men, so they invent endless babble to convince themselves that they're somehow superior, women's intuition is one of these inventions.
Intuition is something we all have, every living creature has intuition, this goes for all living creatures, even those not on Earth, and yet somehow we're all supposed to believe that the human female has a superior, magical, mystical intuition compared to the rest of us, bullshit.

Women make up gossip about people, if they don't know for certain, they can just say their intuition is telling them, what a pile of bollocks, but if it makes those women who feel inferior to men feel better about themselves, if it offers them a glimmer of hope in their sad-arsed lives, then who am I to complain? So long as it doesn't get used in court, "I sentence you to twenty years after hearing the damning evidence from a woman's intuition", frightening.

Just a bit of arrogance they drivel out to try to convince men that they're somehow psychic when in fact most are only psychotic. None are psychic and none have actual intuition.

You can't fool mom, so don't even try it!!!!! It's a biological compnonent.

we sense things before they happen and a lot of the times we are right. +5

hahaha women as scared deer bs.
excuse for not having an understanding of rational thought and just purely responding to an emotion. often leading to irrational actions -
and btw to the feminist argument that intuition is belittleing women its mostly women who prescribe to the intuition theory..

Women's intuition is their 'sixth sense'. Since women tend to be preyed upon more than they are predators, they have a uniquely developed sense of trouble. (which they don't always follow, but they have it). Have you ever watched deer or any other animal that is a herbivore... it has to have some kind of defense. The sixth sense is an intuition and a very strong signaling system. People who work on developing this sense tend to make fewer mistakes in life than those who disregard it. That is not to say that decisions shouldn't be mitigated by other factors, but if I have a strong sense about something, I will definitely listen because in the past, when I didn't I paid the price!

The man says he wants to get to know her, go places, do things, etc. The woman knows has an inkling he just wants to get in her pants.

Women have evolved more emotionally and intellectually than men. So women have inherently got a more advanced understanding of how a person acts and reacts to a certain situation. They play us like a fool because they understand people better than we do.

It's not restricted to females. It's the sensitivity the weak and vulnerable develop as an early-warning mechanism. The flip-side is ungrounded suspicions and baseless fears leading to neurotic behaviour.

The visceral feelings that something is wrong, going on, or NOT good WITHOUT proof!

a guess that the girl wants to label as something less feeble sounding.

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No such thing exists. You think that women have some sort of "spidey sense" that warns them of stuff? Haven't you ever watched "Jerry Springer" or "Steve Wilkos?" They couldn't see stuff staring them right in the face let alone sense it coming.

In regards to all the negative and ignorant replies that were blurted in a defensive attack due to unfortunate lack of education, lack of self-respect and lack of simple reading skills, I have to thank you all for the good laugh! To the imbeciles that commented women try to belittle men and strip them of their powers with "'intuition''...take a step back...why so angry? What has been communicated throughout the beginning of this discussion is a topic in QUESTION. All responses were verified via personal experience opinion and never offered as proven fact. The silly, crude responses from the derelicts I previously mentioned, only enforce the strength of this entire forum.
Women and men are human beings differentiated by sexual organs...FACT. Women and men are biologically built different...FACT. Women and men, due to the standards of the evolution of society, are expected to portray a definition of character, face and fashion that defines their sex...FACT. Women and men's bodies differ extremely in capabilities, functions, physical appearances and internal structure...FACT. Women and men think differently...OF COURSE...BUT...the world is made of billions of individuals that are free to think however they please and also possess the freedom to delegate self-chosen actions or reactions. Please, I beg of those fools(sorry...last insult...unless I can come up with something juicy)that I have and still am directing this 'novel' to, rewind 3 lines and take notice of the word, 'individuals'. Individuals is used to define the human race in it's entirety, regardless of sex.
As certain as 2+2=4, the mystery of man vs. woman will remain. All of us were born with natural instincts. There is a saying, ''Time heals all wounds.''. This saying is used when a person is feeling pain, confusion, sorrow or wrath, therefore the meaning changes to,''Time erases all.''. Has time been to blame for the deterioration of our long-suppressed primal instincts? This certainly seems to be the case. Women have instincts, as well as men. Women associate instincts with intuition. Due to the ever-changing sociological evolution, instincts now owns the same definition of intuition. With this being said, now is the appropriate time to introduce the revised phrase; women have intuition. Mostly, men direct their instinct towards 'bringing' home the bacon'. Generally, men direct their instinct towards business, dollar signs. They get a gut feeling when to hold'em or fold'em. The majority of women use their intuition when it comes to the matters of the heart. They get a gut feeling that is driven by the 5 senses of the human body. No one's instinct nor intuition is better nor lease important. It is what it is. Maybe the intuition and the instinct were created to come together and create balance.

P.S. you know who you are...
stop being so angry, remember, intuition is driven by the heart. Allow yourself to smile.

"Woman's Intuition" means "I have a vagina, therefore, I am a psychic."

Its a crock.

If women dominate human intellegence, then men dominate all physical human strength!