You said: "among the people I make up, a characteristic of men is that they will cooperate with the narrative. Women mostly won't. The female narrator of The Mirador was actually lying to me."
Doesn't that strike you as resembling Real Life somewhat? The reigning wisdom is that men are competitive by nature and women cooperative... yet, in real world observation, it seems that men more easily work together for a common goal while women tend to compete with each other, and judge each other on levels that have nothing to do with said goal. I know these are generalizations... and no generalization ever holds up for all cases... but there it is.
Maybe the female narrator was lying to you because you're too pretty or she likes your husband and doesn't think you deserve him.
Real Life?
You said: "among the people I make up, a characteristic of men is that they will cooperate with the narrative. Women mostly won't. The female narrator of The Mirador was actually lying to me."
Doesn't that strike you as resembling Real Life somewhat? The reigning wisdom is that men are competitive by nature and women cooperative... yet, in real world observation, it seems that men more easily work together for a common goal while women tend to compete with each other, and judge each other on levels that have nothing to do with said goal. I know these are generalizations... and no generalization ever holds up for all cases... but there it is.
Maybe the female narrator was lying to you because you're too pretty or she likes your husband and doesn't think you deserve him.
Just a thought.
Bryan.