I deliberately chose "class" rather than "category," the loadedness of "class" being my very reason, "conflict" being a hoped-for connotation. Don't think that "What's Wrong With Pretty Girls?" would have been nearly as powerful if I had not used the word "class."

While browsing the stacks found a Marxist who was saying that "middle class" is a huge problem for people like him, and that his easy way out had been to say that the middle classes were playing and forced into multiple rules in relation to domination (both dominated and dominating). The reason he wasn't satisfied with his own previous solution was that domination does not necessarily entail antagonistic class interests (e.g., a parent can dominate a child while not being averse to the child's interests), and it loses the central characteristic of Marx's class analysis, which is exploitation. Of course, I, not being a Marxist, don't buy the idea that capitalism is necessarily exploitative. But I do feel an affinity to the idea that interests are often antagonistic, and that sometimes groups are antagonistic not only because of conflicting interests but because they like conflict anyway.