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Well, forms did admit that he couldn't see the problem, so it's an accurate description.
I'm guessing that plurabelle's suggesting empathy is less likely if you've not been in the situation yourself. It might be seen as less 'predictable and understandable' if the same views were voiced by a woman.
Whenever the subject of sexism used to come up in my childhood household (usually during some TV programme, as that was the leisure time mainstay for my parents), my mother would end up saying stuff like, "women have gone too far these days", and other ridiculous reactionary self-enslaving shit.