Dorothy Rowe sets out the difference between a masculine way of thinking and a feminine way of thinking. It's standard stuff - as follows:
What I call a masculine way of thinking is not confined to men and does not apply to all men. It is a way of perceiving the world in terms of the essentials and stripping away the decorative and the dross... The feminine way of thinking, which again does not apply to all women, is made up of myriad observations, thoughts and feelings, with constant interruptions and changes in what is being attended to, often with details to the fore and the wider picture ignored.Then she says this:
Many men who think in a masculine way make one major error. This is that, when engaged in interpreting a situation in which people are involved, they disregard how these people interpret their situation. Men who make this mistake fail to understand that what determines our behaviour isn't what happens to us but how we each interpret what happens to us, and that no two people ever see anything exactly the same way.Not understanding that the interpretation of what happens to them affects people's behaviour would be, for example, not knowing that it'll make a difference whether someone treats a minor slight as of no importance at all or, instead, makes it the basis of a long-term grudge - whether they treat it as merely thoughtless or as intentional, etc. Such a lack of understanding, I'd say, isn't so much a masculine way of thinking as it is the way of thinking of a fool.