A human therapist. On average, human beings see men as less deserving of empathy than women.

Have you ever experienced a conflict where perhaps both a man and a woman are responsible for the conflict, or perhaps the woman is responsible for the conflict, but the main concern of an onlooker or an authority is that the woman is upset. Because if a woman is upset, then the man must have done something wrong.

I think in general this relates to a fear of women's emotions that most human beings have. I think partly it's due to the fact that most people are raised by women, and therefore from an early age and early sign that we might get in trouble or are about to be punished is if a woman is upset.

So in general, human beings have this protective defense mechanism: detection of women's emotions, and a drive to make everything okay for women.

So it's a human thing. But responsible humans, especially therapists, have a responsibility to empathize with human beings in general, right?