'Power' is not about resources; it's about sex.
'Power' is assumed to be about resources, exercised by men over women as well as by men over other men. But this misunderstands the biology of dominance, which is same-sex, serving not to apportion resources more efficiently by minimising conflict, but to create competition so as to apportion reproduction. To understand society, our conception of 'power' needs radical revision.
Steve Moxon is a freelance author/researcher across science regarding men-women and the sexes. He has published a provocatively titled book, ‘The Woman Racket: The new science explaining how the sexes relate at work, at play and in society – http://www.imprint-academic.com/moxon. A scientific essay on dominance is to be an editorial in the journal, Medical Hypotheses, and he publishes his own occasional and challenging blog - stevemoxon.blogspot.com.
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