It was a private female thing about which he knew no details.
I'm just doing the bloody female thing, and it annoys me.
"I think our society has a perception that dieting is a female thing."
He winced at the memory of asking her if she ever did any normal female things.
"There were female things by your tablets, jewelry, but you mentioned no woman on the ship."
"I love to listen to women talk about female things like losing the weight after a baby," he said.
But then, perhaps "son-in-law" is a female thing in China.
Such a female thing, to wear the symbol when there's no man to go with it.
To ask for help is seen as being a female thing.
It used to be that hair removal was strictly a female thing.