"Women's intuition" and patriarchal veil-making

"Intuition" could mean all sorts of things. The word itself still requires deeper definition.

If we are talking about the capacity to have correct hunches -- what is normally referred to as 'women's intuition" -- then the best explanation/definition I have heard is that this is a category of intuition possessed by all who are in a position of being oppressed. The capacity to anticipate the actions of the "master", to effectively "read his mind" can be a life-preserving skill -- and therefore one worth developing for anyone in an especially vulnerable position in relation to power. So, it is not just women, but others who have been a long time in a position of relative dis-empowerment, who will be likely to develop this skill.

Alternatively, one may wish to consider the question in relation to a different set of ideas. Supposing that "intuition" was the capacity to detect cause and effect, that is something entirely different from the capacity to have the right hunch about what someone will do next.

Certainly, many women have a better grasp of cause and effect than their male counterparts would have. This is because women were historically positioned to relate more directly to the concrete (empirical) world than men are, whereas men were relieved of the everyday burdens of housework and child rearing so as to be able to become, in effect, Philosophical Idealists (people who relate to the world in terms of intangible abstract concepts) to a greater degree.

Philosophical Idealists have the tendency not to see cause and effect as stemming from the relations of the material world. Rather, they experience cause and effect as the influence of one set of abstractions on another. So, for instance, "cultural decline" can be viewed as having the abstract cause of "female insubordination". In such an estimation, neither of the two concepts -- one posited as "cause" and the other as "effect" -- need be given any concrete definition. Also, on an intangible plane, by means of a strange reversal, patriarchal myths have it that male creativity "causes" females to come into being, but never the other way around. This reversal of cause and effect is obvious.