It's one thing to have useful heuristics and rules of thumb, but when it conflicts with official, blessed truths about "humans are all identical", it's important to be careful what you say and to whom. Especially in the workplace, where there can be real consequences for having the "wrong" points of view.
From the outside it looks like your comment could easily be translated as "women need to know their place", but with fancier words to make it look philosophical.
> "humans are all exactly identical, no questions asked"
No one asserts this, not even gender studies majors. What's problematic is asserting that gender differences should have any bearing on what a member of a particular gender is allowed to do.
Subscribing to stereotypes is what excludes a large number of extraordinarily talented women from either entering or finding work in the tech industry.
Being unable to sit still, wanting to run around - now treated as an illness Roughhousing - a normal male activity, is now a crime in schools.
Here is a good article making my point - http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/19/school-has-become-too-hosti...
http://www.amazon.com/The-WAR-AGAINST-BOYS-Misguided/dp/0684...
We all bring our particular preferences and biases to the table, so we need to do the best we can to be fair and reasonable to the candidates that come in front of us.
Two Candidates, identical qualifications, identical experience, both interview well, I'm going to go with my 'intuition' to make the final call, whatever it is that goes into that is between myself and my concience.