Kinda like the age old question of what came first, the chicken or the egg.
There is a saying that our thoughts create feelings. I think, that aside from actual physical feelings of pain, that thought proceeds feeling and creates the correspondent emotional reaction. There is also a saying that feelings are not facts, which seems to support that thought is more factual and feeling more irrational.
Then, we have personality and temperament study with people either being more thought inclined vs. more feeling inclined.
The brains predominant mode of relating/viewing the world based on either logic and reason or emotion.
Most women are feelers and most men are thinkers, hence, some of the gender differences, however, while less common, there are plenty of thinking women and feeling type males as well.
As a thinking type women here an intuitive thinker ( NT ) I often have a difficult time with the sensing feeling types ( SF’s ) as they tend to use emotional reasoning over logic.
While these particular modes of relating/processing our environments do not mean that thinkers do not or cannot feel nor that feelers do not or cannot think but, quite frankly, I find that feeling comes easier to thinkers than logic does to feelers. lol
An interesting question might be how much evolution plays into these differences?
Why have more males evolved as thinkers and more women evolved as feelers, yet, there are those within each gender that have the predominant opposite functions.
How does this serve mankind on the whole?