Man seems to live in constant fear of his own extinction. The fascination as well as fear seems to me to be a primal fear phenomenon, mixed with a deep negative attitude towards oneself as humanity and the ambivalence towards what one perceives as a friendly, perfect planet, predestined to create life, and what one perceives as destructive and imperfect, without bringing the two into harmony with each other.

According to which death and birth, creation and decay belong to each other, to my world view. I do not feel motivated to find anything threatening in it, nor anything exaggeratedly glorious. Both the romantic and the dystopian are stylistic exaggerations of those who write books and make films; it is better not to take it literally, but as an expression of an imaginative capacity that merely expresses the imaginative richness of the human being.

The power of storytelling is a cultural and evolutionary heritage, it would be a great pity to misunderstand this imaginative capacity to the extent that it is about prophetically grim punishment scenarios, either by nature as the evil avenger of human wrongdoing or as a cold and random event force of un-intelligent matter. Superstition seems to be lurking around not far away.

The trauma of the fear of death, where it is integrated into a human community that manages to frame hard and frightening trials of its young people and thus to integrate the experienced traumas into the living and the confident, there man does not need to think of himself as helpless in the face of the forces, but to see his existence as fulfilling and healthy until he meets his end, the last of all challenges.

I don't think much of gender-conflicts "resolved" by giving preference to one or the other. It's the differences which are of interest to me, which hold the successes in human kinds history, not only between genders but between each and every single human being.

Thanks for the recommendation, it gave me the chance to give my view on the matter.