Girl Talk and Guy talk

I was talking to one of my female friends the other day and we were discussing the fact that a guy she had met earlier hadn't texted her. It wasn't that she was competely distraught, but she was concerned about his possible lack of interest. I, of course, immediately went into consolation mode. "He was probably really busy, or his phone was off, or...broken! That's it his phone broke, it must have, because he DEFINITELY would've talked to you if everything was fine!" At first she nodded, and then a male friend, who had been correcting the grammar mistakes on a note that was posted by the RA, jumped in and said that we were such girls. That there are plenty of logical reasons why he didn't text her that didn't include technological malfunction. I was stuck on the fact that he labeled our conversation as girly. Is the way that girls communicate with each other really that different from guys? When giving advice, is an emotional versus a logical response gender defined? I think it depends less on the gender of those involved and more on the immediate needs of the listener. She wasn't looking for a logical straightforward reason as to why he hadn't kept in touch, she was looking for an affirmation, or at least speculation, that he found her engaging. If it were two guys in the situation what would happen? I'm guessing the phrase, "on to the next one", might come up...