As long as he isn't missing all the subtle cues that women give men to show them they're interested, he's cool. Of course, he may not be all that clued up, and might reject womens advances, since most men seem to have this bad attitude that womens ways of approaching them should be like mens ways of approaching women, which seems illogical since women ain't men.
That he thinks of himself, on this basis, as a man, therefore, no woman is any better than he. That he takes care of himself, first, and other's after that if he feels it's true. I think he probably has thought a few have come real close to that, though.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.