"The only time a man is really and entirly a man,  is when he just had a woman, or just killed an man". Great book that shows what happens when toxic masculinity seizes power with their superiority, entitlement, opportunism, colonizing, exploiting and abusing everything for their own egotistical power needs. Cutting living trees for logging and destroy ecosystems, abusing animals for sports by hunting them killing just for pleasure and sens of action. Small step to human or alien humanoid trafficking, using women and children as objects to abuse for one's own sexual pleasure or slavery. Captain Don Davidson is by species a human (or terran), but has not a single pinch of humanity/empathy for the living creatures he encounters, dehumanizing young women to sex objects and the Athsheeans as "creechies" and have racist feeling towards ecologist/anthropologist dr Raj Lyubov. If only his malignant narcissistic character was purely fictional. We have types like Andrew Tate and Donald Trump.