Starbucks is the most popular coffee house in the world, so the common practices that

which they participate in are multiplied by every single store that exists. These effects do not
always have a positive effect on society. For instance, the full spectrum of ability and gender
preferences is not nearly taken into account enough in the layout of Starbucks to accommodate
all people. Because Starbucks does not compensate their stores for the full spectrum of ability,
they participate in what Eve Sedgwick calls ​the minoritizing​ view of ability, which causes harm
to people that are disabled; similarly, there are duel gender binary bathrooms, of which assumes
people fall under two genders, which connects to what Tyson calls ​heterocentrism​; both kinds of
discrimination connect because they are both instances of the supposed majority ignoring the
needs of a minority (5; 305). Because Starbucks both The marginalization of disabled people and
people that are queer is important because of the scale of starbucks, and the effect that
marginalization has on those marginalized.

Starbucks marginalizing people that are disabled by failing to accommodate them via
many aspects of the layout of the store. For instance, there is no braille anywhere in the store but
the bathrooms, the doors are not automatic, and there are some highly placed products. People
that cannot see, open doors, and short cannot function as they would like in Starbucks, and
because of this, Starbucks fails to accommodate them. Because Starbuck does not take into
account the needs of people that are disabled, they participate in what Eve Sedgwick calls a
minoritizing view,​ as opposed to ​universalizing view​, that will view disabled people as “an issue
of continuing determinative importance in the lives of people across the spectrum” (5). This is
important because failing to perform functions that others can perform because of the layout of a
store would be bothering at the best and humiliating at the worst. While the effects that
Starbucks’ layout has on people that are disabled is harmful, people that are queer are affected
as well.

Starbucks only acknowledges the existence of two genders, male and female, and in
doing so, communicates the oppressive ideology of there being exclusively two genders. Inside
of Starbucks, there are only two bathrooms: male and female. Those that do not identify as the
gender that society unfairly conceptualizes for them are at risk of harassment or assault if they
enter the bathroom that they identify with, and they contribute to structural injustice by entering
the bathroom that they do not identify with. Because Starbuck’s assumes that people fall under
the two traditional genders, Starbucks is heterocentric, which is “the assumption..that
heterosexuality is universal;” while sex is different than gender, an assumption of sex usually
correspond to an assumption of gender (Tyson 305). This matters because half of those
transgender die from suicide or murder, of which Starbucks contributes to by failing to
acknowledge their existence. Starbucks does contribute to the oppression of people that are
queer, but this oppression also connects to Starbucks’ oppression of people that are disabled.
 Starbucks fails to recognize both people that are disabled, and people that are queer, of
which results in their oppression. The layout of the store does not accommodate people that
cannot see, people that are short, those that have trouble opening doors, which connects to Eve
Sedgwick’s idea of an oppressive ​minoritizing view;​ Starbucks also does not accommodate
people that are queer, because the bathrooms only correspond to two genders, connecting to what
Tyson calls ​heterocentrism​ All of these instances of marginalization intertwine, because they all
support the conformity to the tribe, and the failure to recognize the needs of those that are
different. It is important to take into account those that are different, because difference is not a
relevant moral characteristic, on its own, to imply that anyone is less a part of the moral
community; each people are ends in themselves, and as a society we should act like it.