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Majoritarianism teaches that, on any issue, the majority gets to determine what the norm should be. This mentally had both political and social applications. For instance, because America is a democracy majoritarianism is often romanticized and equated with fairness. Majoritarianism is accepted as an ideal way to determine social and legal codes but there can be serious drawn backs to this. For one thing, majoritarianism can mask power dynamics while oversimplifying the intricacies of decision-making. Masked power dynamics allows a status quo to be established that few critique despite the probability that the system is detrimental to another group. In conjunction, the oversimplification of the various identities one has can lead to conflict when two identities are in direct opposition with each other.
While this can also be an example of heteronormativity, Put This on the {Map} stills manages to express that sense of isolation a group can feel when they are not a part of the majority. Because heterosexual behavior is characteristic of a majority group, little thought has been given to those that identify as LGBTQ+. Perhaps more importantly, members of the majority have accepted the lack of care given to the minority group with little thought. This could have some unsettling implications. Indeed, this focus on the interests of the majority over that of the minority has had terrible outcomes such as slavery and sexism. In these instances, the power held by white men, which was considered to be the majority, was legitimized by the concept of majoritarianism. This led to a subsequent abuse of