Men tend to like to use language in a way that is considered
   "factual" but it's just as fictional as anybody else's account
   of reality. I think women's account of the facts is more trusted
   when it gets into layers of details involving multiple contexts
   of a person's life story and involving interpreting emotional
   intent.* Men are more believed when it's a simple chain of
   reasoning that stays within a single 'school of thought'; in
   short, a very limited context. Example: A women is more
   typically believed when one hears, "Can't you see you hurt his
   feelings? Don't you know what he's BEEN through lately?"* That
   will be believed as it's assumed that women have more of a hold
   on all things empathy and that men have more of a hold of all
   things rational - both are ridiculous notions, part of our
   cultural upbringing and less to do with any kind of innate
   differences, imho.