we’re above others in some socially defined way. And because that way is shaped by culture, not nature, people can climb Mount Delectable by doing the weirdest things. For example, for women in traditional China, climbing the social ladder required having teeny-tiny feet. Generations of girls and women had their feet bound and crushed, crippling them to make them better. In Victorian England, women wore fabrics dyed with arsenic that caused skin ulcers and had a tendency to burst into
