“All those unspoken agreements about how we’re supposed to interact with each other, what is and isn’t good manners, that kind of thing. Except a lot of those contracts are used to prop up, oh, not the status quo exactly, but . . . actually, yes,” she decides. “Exactly the status quo. It props up sexism and racism and classism and mountains of other isms that are inherently flawed systems. The continued dominance of the status quo is dependent on the social contracts that reinforce some behaviors and discourage others.” “Okay,
