After a particularly nasty experience with a woman I had a relationship of sorts with, I took somewhat of a step back from relationships and spent a lot of time reading philosophy. This was as much due to my health as much as anything else I should add. However, I was reading Schoppenhauer who is a bit of a misogynist and came across this quote which pretty much summed up my experience.

Hence, it will be found that the fundamental fault of the female character is that it has no sense of justice. This is mainly due to the fact, already mentioned, that women are defective in the power of reasoning and deliberation; but it is also traceable to the position which Nature has assigned to them as the weaker sex. They are dependent not upon strength, but upon craft, and hence their instinctive capacity for cunning, and their incredible tendency to say what is not true.

Now I'm not saying Schoppenhauer has hit the nail on the head when it comes to women but I think he touched on a basic problem between the sexes and that is we are assigned by nature different functions and the sexes have devised strategies to fullfill those functions.

My question is, are the sexes destined to misunderstand and miscommunicate with each other or when miscommunication happens is it a conventient excuse used by one or the other?