Okay, I will trust your assertion that most women need to vent regularly...and they just want to be heard, in that moment, with no accompanying conversation.

I shouldn't have referenced "the exception" when your intent was to frame it in terms of referring to women's experiences. When I wrote "the exception," I was only thinking in terms of conversations I've participated in or witnessed -- which, as you duly point out, requires me to decenter myself from that framework.