It’s not comparable. If your wife was buying a fuel pump, I expect she would just pick up the one suitable for her car, too ... perhaps after calling ahead to make sure they have it in stock. (I always call ahead if it’s important to get a specific item - my husband never does.)
But more to the point, that’s you or her, or it’s me or my daughter or son. Generalizing it to apply to whole groups of people is tendentious, intended to “prove” a prejudice, not make a useful observation.
Well, I seemed to have learned some things over the years. We have been married twenty.....(let’s see, 2012 minus 1990) that’s 22 years and here’s some of those things:
When we go anywhere in the car, in 5 minutes she’ll be asleep. If she’s not asleep, she’ll want to talk until I turn off the stereo then she gets quiet. If I turn the stereo back on, she wants to talk.
Within 10 minutes she has to go potty. We know the location of every restroom in every store that we frequent.
Her incessant chatter is a female thing, but when I (infrequently) start talking cars with a friend I talk too much.
The house is NEVER clean enough.
When we watch a movie together, she asks me constantly what is happening as she doesn’t seem to be able to follow the plot.
But most important, I LOVE HER AND CAN’T IMAGINE MY LIFE WITHOUT HER. All those things make life fun.