Sunday, February 21, 2010

In the article “Lest we Think the Revolution is a Revolution, Images of technology and the Nature of Change” Cynthia L. Selfe explains that computers and the Internet are a huge aspect to the Americans every day life. She believes that this is not the best thing for us, it is taking away from many things and now we are brainwashed by this new technology, we are at the point were there is obviously no stopping. “At other levels, we fear the effects of technology, and the potent changes that it introduces into familiar systems.” , here she is just trying to show us that right now we are blind and forget where we are heading , we fear this change but are to afraid to change it. In her third narrative, she enforces her realization that the Internet clearly doesn’t want to make room for women, and that all new technology is still just aiming for the male gender of all ages. She noticed that when this technology began people thought that we were going to be more equal with each other, meaning genders, and that commercials and programs will be aiming for both sex’s to be using it equally, especially due to the times that we, Americans, have overcome. However those ideas sunk and everything is just gotten heavier for men because of the internet, women are totally shut out of this idea of the internet and were never taught how to use it to begin with. She found that men are the one needing it more for there high paying jobs while women are still at home mending the family and house, with out the new high technology. This is another opinionated narrative written by a feminist, which is not a bad thing, however these ideas are some what out of date for me to understand. However points are made that do make sense, I just don’t think that they fit into our new generation in the year of 2010. Women are now managers, CEO’s , and are standing right next to men at the top of the food chain. We even had a woman run for President this year, and that is a huge deal especially for this article. Women these days have a lot of respect for what they do because we can manage anything just as well as men could do. I’m trying not to sound like a little girl on the play ground arguing that girls are better then boys or sound like a crazy feminist woman that hates men and their ideals, however it is kind of hard not to get into that mind frame. I am just proud to say that women are at the top with men and some are very high above a lot of men, we have come a long way, and fought hard for it as well. These ideas that men are always pushing us down are sometimes true because that idea that women are meant to stay home and keep up house are still around in many countries but not in here any more. Women are completely capable now in this era, personally I feel like this is a style that that wont fade out and we will hold on to this spot or keep getting higher, but there is no falling off of this latter. We have worked hard for this spot and we wont be lowering for any one. Technology will keep us all at a high and for all genders now and every one young enough to make a real change in the world now is old enough to know how to use a computer and the internet.

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