I do not relate well to men so therefore I only see female professionals. It is not because they might not understand -I just don't do well with men. I do have a few male friends, and can deal with men as colleagues when I need to, but women are much better for me. Men do come to me to unburden themselves for whatever reason. The therapist has guessed it is because I am not all that emotional and don't get involved-I just sit there and appear to pay attention.
I thought the original comment was about women being able to be in the world a different way than men in western culture.

I have never had a female therapist try to be all maternal or emotional at me. I found the two men I interviewed insufferable- one was way paternalistic, condescending and an *** and the other was touchy feely in touch with his feminine side new age guy who I could not abide.