Whether it's men or women, irrationality bothers me. Julia was very intelligent, and we'd always draw in debates, but while she'd had the intelligence to make her positions internally consistent, they had little or no correlation to observable reality. An example was her claiming that magic is real and that she could use it, and then producing convoluted explanations for why she was unwilling to give a personal demonstration of it (it was disrespectful to the spirits to use magic just to prove the existence of magic) and why outcomes that would seem unavoidable from the reality of magic, such as it's employment for military purposes and the use of 'magic divisions' in the military forces of the world couldn't be observed to exist (it took as much effort to do something through magic as to achieve the same goal non-magically).
It does seem to me that this sort of thinking is more common among females than males, but there are plenty of males who're like that too.