I still don't believe that's inherently sexist. One could easily say the same thing applies to women about understanding men. In fact, I do believe a lot of tension between individual men and women is a communication breakdown because they're not thinking on the same wavelength.
As an example, if you're in a group with 2 or more women, watch how they interact in conversation. Listen to what threads they follow. Most often, they'll be relating experiences to one another and how they reacted to them on a mental and emotional level. Men on the other hand relate experiences to one another, then try to deconstruct them and offer advice and critique. Does that mean there are no pragmatic women or emotionally oriented men? No. It's just the way we're naturally inclined to go.
I agree. And I do think that women understand men more than other way around. It's in woman's nature to read body language a lot better than a man does. Mainly because of their maternal instinct. They need to know what their baby needs just by looking at them (since babies can't talk). That is why when it comes to body language (and reading/understanding people), women are using 15-16 different parts of their brain, while men use only 5 - 6 parts. Women most of the time know what you are thinking and what you are about to do, way before you do it. Which is a useful information when it comes to PUA. Women knows when you are thinking of trying to kiss them, way before you realize that they do.
Also, women ARE capable of doing multiple things at once, like having 4-5 different conversations with 4-5 different people at once, and just by anchoring their voice they can switch between those conversations. That is why we think that women like to talk a lot.
For the communication problem between a man and a woman, besides the wavelength, is in my opinion because of all that alpha male pride thing. In an argument, guys rarely back up and admit that they are wrong (if they actually are) because they are afraid that they will lose their alpha male status in a relationship, while women want's to be equal to men. Try to remember when your parents told you that in their time, when they were young, they didn't have as many communication and relationships problem. Why is that? Because in that time, women were not allowed so many things (ok, instead of your parents, ask your grandpa). They were not considered equal, and for centuries, they were always the "lower" gender, they always did what they were told.
But in the last 100 years, or closer, women started to get more rights, and all this equal thing kicked in. So now imagine a conversation between a guy who is afraid for his alpha mail status and his ego, and a woman who got tired of being pushed around by men, and wants to be equal. You get a pretty nasty argument, and conversational hell.
@Beans25: I never said that what I'm talking about is from some PUA forums or guy stories. It's all from personal experience and field testing. A lot of cultures differ from one another, and no one can tell for sure what all women think, but even if I don't have any lab research, you can try and see that the next list would apply to a lot of women from modern western/European cultures.
Some attributes that women likes in a man:
Confidence (goes back to all that primal alpha male period)
Humor (laughing release endorphins which acts as an analgesic, and makes them feel good)
Personal Hygiene (ummmm.. nuf said)
Originality (to actually stand up from the crowd and not bore her)
Psychical Appearance (while not THE most important thing, it is still pretty important)
Intelligence (women like to be challenged intellectually, and they like to talk to intelligent guys because they always have a solution for a problem......... all that provider thing)
Well Educated (not to be confused with intelligent... once again, women are attracted to personality traits more than looks, so if you always have some interesting topic to discuss, they will love that)
Rich (I put this at the end. While being one of the least important, it IS still the factor. Specially with older women. They don't like to be "sugar mommas", they want a guy who can provide for her, and himself. If the woman is already working and has a good job, than she would like if the guy at least had enough money for himself).
I don't have any scientific proof for this, but just go out, do your research, and this is what you will find out in most women that you interview.
@KeoSilver:
Kleptomaniac likes to steal stuff.
Hypochondriac feels like he has every disease in the world.
Edit: The above part about body language and woman's brain is from "The Definitive Book of Body Language"
I really need to learn how to do that multiple quote post thing...