I think an important point. As humans we tend to flatter ourselves about our "complexity" . But decades in social care gives me the view that though large aggregates of people can be complex, the individuals are quite simple and often apparently act on quite "trivial" notions. The fight (sometimes literally) to be special in males motivates males to take action, for they are valued for their contributions, and in a sense this hasn't changed. Increasingly for women their specialness has shrunk to being "beautiful" (spawning a massive fashion and beauty industry "you're worth it") appearing to be a "man" in being an employee or being sensitive and fragile, a princess able to feel the tiniest pea. In a way "Barbie" the movie exemplified this. All the Barbies were beautiful (even the token diversity ones) and constantly were told this, had jobs that only required the right outfit and no actual work (the slender construction workers had no dirt to dig nor the Bin women any actual trash in their super clean bins) and lived to show off their many outfits at parties and apparently had no resilience at all when Ken came along with revolutionary new ideas. A fragile plastic world. Rather a good analogy to the value empty consumer world, in which appearances are all and it is remarkably difficult to be special in any way. Regressing to the childlike claims for attention is perhaps no surprise, just transformed from the phantom headaches, tummy bugs, dramas and tantrums of childhood to the much more dangerous (to others) victimhoods.