Behind the scenes negotiations and negotiations happen in any possible context and at any possible time. Regardless of whether a business deal consists of two people negotiating a business deal, eighty people silently weighing the pros and cons of drawing attention to themselves, or a single person unconsciously deciding to give up their individuality for To wrest some semblance of power from the system, a choice is always made between various options. Everyone has to negotiate with the patriarchy. Patriarchy, an aspect of society that promotes “male-dominated, male-identified, and male-centeredness,” uses male-centered actions and the exclusion of women to “subsume the female under the male,” which means that anyone who tries to exist in society as gender humans, for better or worse, fall under patriarchy, "black manhood, [...] could not be achieved or maintained", meaning that men who they are not white they still have to struggle to have a say in the patriarchy and therefore do business for themselves, which means that the patriarchy is the white man's reign of control (Carby 35). This also implies that black femininity has no place within patriarchy, as male privilege is reserved only for white men. Since patriarchy is a white kingdom, and according to Carby's thesis, only white women can enter into patriarchal agreements. Bennett believes that any woman is capable of bargaining with the patriarchy, as “women as a group are disempowered” and therefore play a role in it by trying to wrest any power they can (Carby 57). Carby believes that because of the cult of true femininity, white women are allowed to make patriarchal arrangements, but because of the racial and class divide, black women, particularly in slave times, are not even allowed the opportunity to assimilate into patriarchal organization. world and competition This has heavy consequences for women as a class because women come from very broad backgrounds: race, social class, financial background, sexual orientation, gender expression, cis/transgender background, age, ability, and every other background imaginable. we must reconcile all these backgrounds together as companions. Bennett would argue that the lack of knowledge of women's pasts as a class “hinders our ability to draw continuities in women's history,” particularly because women's history is different with each separate connection to other backgrounds (Bennett 79). It could be argued that the only thing that binds women together as a class in modern society is the ability to make patriarchal deals. While not all women are able to integrate into patriarchy as easily as white, cis, heterosexual women, in modern society, more women than ever have been able to make patriarchal