Sexy Sexism

This morning I started a conversation with a friend of mine about women, men and bowel movements (I apologize if that's a bit graphic at noon, it's only the truth). This then lead to a conversation about women's bathroom habits and what they do there without the prying eyes of men. The underlying followed (SN's changed to protect the...well just to be nice):

Me: Every time we go to the ladies room it's merely to powder our faces and reapply lipstick
TNA: and talk about boys without them hearing
Me: How could I forget!
Me: usually it's "ZOMG does he REALLY like me"
Me: occasionally we adjust our dresses and fix runs in pantyhose with clear nail polish...you wouldn't believe what women fit in clutch purses
TNA: i'm pretty sure if we could figure out how you people do that, we'd have the secret to faster than light travel
Me: Most likely
Me: cures for cancer, the ability to fly, stuff like that
Me: Btw, those are the reasons women go to the bathroom in groups. Otherwise, we pretty much don't mind flying solo to the loo
TNA: protecting the secrets of the clutch purse?
Me: yup
TNA: makes sense to me

Have women become such a mystery (or so stereotypical) that men no longer find us interesting? Has it reached a point that we must work twice as hard to prove our equality in order to be respected? Do men REALLY believe that all we do is talk about them in groups while applying makeup in the ladies room?

Gosh, I hope not.