I toss Joe my John Stoltenberg paperback and begin poring through indexes of Patricia Williams, Marge Piercy, Andrea Dworkin, Deborah Rhode and bell hooks. Pages and pages of why women lack power, how women lack power, how power is used against women to promote men and keep women down. It is depressing. Yet ironically, powerful. Joe, meanwhile, is more interested in my physics book.
Work is the area under the curve, where the X-axis is time.
Power does not have to be a constant. Joe is still talking. When you look at power, you are looking at it at any one period in time. Power is a capacity, not the end result. That's so postmodern.