Yet I've actually met plenty of women who would fall into the minority gender-atypical taxon who do understand typical women, experience difficulties interacting with them, and are sympathetic to male difficulties interacting with these women. A female friend of my mine in college insists that "women are evil." Another female friend (highly introverted and thing-oriented) once told me that she doesn't like most women and can't relate to them; she considers them annoying and full of drama.

Most of of my female friends fit this category. I can emphasise with what they are saying, I grew up with sisters, after all, and at times didn't envy them their 'friends'. Then nature of peer competition is differentiated somewhat between the sexes and the gender-atypical women I know are poorly suited to it. But being male I actually find I have far less of that sort of trouble, given that I am not often a direct competitor. That and I have the opportunity to use innocent flirtation to release some of the competitive tension without zero-sum conflict.