By conflict, I mean a particular kind of relationship with others, with yourself, and with the world.
Conflict is contact.
In every encounter, one person always has more command over a situation that the other - and may contest you for the things you want. If you lose, you lose your struggle to have a better, fairer, nobler, and sweeter life. Hence, a more successful life. If feminism's doctrines of gender equality are undoubtedly true, women in the '90s have already achieved Rubin-like status and power. One highly reclusive CEO invited me into his inner chamber and asked me to analyse its passageways and corners as if I were analysing his mind.