Anyone notice women NT seem to be more emotional than men

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The difference between male and female brains is this; female brains have a larger hypothalamus. The hypothalamus communicates between the right and left sides of the brain.
Women are not more emotionally wired or less logically wired
It could be argued that women tend to hold grudges precisely because emotional reactions are being communicated to the part of the brain associated with memory and reasoning. Remembering that someone has hurt you in the past serves a logical function (i.e. preventing it from happening again).

Men are more likely to act out violently when emotionally triggered. This may be because emotions are not being communicated to the logical part of the brain (which might think about consequences)

Are you using the word "emotional" to mean "emotionally expressive" ? If so, then some cases (see above) men are more "emotional" than women.

There was a study done a while back. I recall it entailed a situation where two participants played a game where they were given the opportunity to cheat. One participant was able to press a button to deliver a painful electric shock to the other if they suspected them of cheating.

In general, the men in the study experienced greater satisfaction when inflicting the painful punishment on their opponent than the women. The conclusion of the study was that men get more satisfaction than women when inflicting pain upon someone whom they perceived has wronged them.

Women generally go about revenge in a less violent, but more emotionally destructive way I think. But I'm not sure that the women in this study felt as wronged as the men.

That sounds like passive-aggressiveness..........and I'd have thought women would find it hard not to be like that, after all those centuries of being repressed - being unable to hit back directly for fear of a damaging counter-attack from the (more powerful) man, underhandedly getting even would be the only way to recover a modicum of self-esteem. I don't believe that anybody who is being repeatedly wronged is capable of just sitting back and taking it forever.

Not that I think all women are like that. Just as well, because I would never stand for such underhandedness in a relationship - I notice these things and they chip away at the part of me that cares about partners....ultimately it's a deal-breaker fro me, I want somebody who's going to tell me explicitly how I'm hurting them, I don't want to have to work it out from the fact that they're freezing me out, hiding behind veiled put-downs, or dangling some sexual rival in my face. I can't understand how women who do that manage to hang onto their partners.

I get really fixated on someone who I feel has wronged me - I've never acted on it, but I obsess over the most gruesome ways I would want to kill that person and usually that involves writing it down, ranting at my partner or friend or just fantasising over it. I don't think about their emotions, I just want to see them suffer.

There are a lot of things I notice about female NT behaviour that doesn't make sense to me. They seem to notice (and thus judge) so many things that a lot of men won't even register in social situations, which is probably why I tend to find women quite intimidating.

Who are you referring to?