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In the articles, Saudis in Bikinis and The Tyranny of the Majority, the authors depict the injustices that can be created by an overwhelming majority.
Guinier provides examples of how our own society imposes a winner take all mind frame on us from the time that we are children reading through Sesame Street magazines to the time we are attending our high school proms. She states that this state of mind excludes the minority’s thoughts and feelings about decisions being made for the group as a whole.
She shows how our own democratic voting system can become flawed if we allow a fixed majority to consistently undermine the wants and needs of the minority. If we allow the majority to it to become permanent, there are no checks and balances to keep it from becoming overbearing. Thus, “A majority that doesn’t worry about defectors is a majority with total power,” she states; In other words, a tyranny.
Kristof’s piece complements this argument by also showing how majority rule can dominate an entire culture’s way of life, and at the same time give the minorities a sense of unfairness. He presents the opinions of women belonging to that particular culture, all of whom are in somewhat of a different social status. In his questioning of these women, Kristof realizes that these women do have different opinions about what they are forced to carry out in society. He shows how some in the minority group of women opposed to their set customs can still feel a sense of discrimination, even when the majority of the women support those customs. Just as it is unfair for those students at Brother Rice who have to listen to only one genre of music during their only high school prom it would be unfair to force all women to wear certain robes around their bodies at all times of the day. These are both sides of the extreme, but they both show the same argument against an overbearing majority.
The way in which Kristof’s essay complements Guiner’s piece is that it shows how (even in a democratic society that has voting systems in place to ensure equality for all) a majority group that has no concern for the minority can be as tyrannical as a society run by a demanding religion and it’s king.