…d — because a patriarchal dominance hierarchy model has insecurity built into the operating system. If you have to always be in competition with everyone around you, including the person you are romantically involved with, for some kind of imaginary status in an invented pecking order, how happy or confident can you ever be? There’s always going to be somebody “better” than you, or somebody trying to step on you to get ahead. How can you ever be close to anyone, not even the woman in your life, under those circumstances? The patriarchal dominance hierarchy isn’t good for anyone, except maybe for a few elites at the very top of the social pyramid.