Selfe claims

Selfe claims americans often think that the internet will bring about a utopic world in which gender is not a concern or predictor in success in our daily lives (305). She explains that this is not the case. She says that to this day men dominate the computer industry. You don't hear about very many women designing software for microsoft,nor hear of women entering the advanced fields of computer science compared to the number of men. She isn't saying that there aren't any women just that the men far out way the women. To add fewer girls use computers in secondary school enviorments and video games are designed for males specifically.
She also claims that having a un-gendered utopia could be both a good and a bad thing.
She explains "Creating an electronic un-gendered utopia means that we might have to learn how to understand people outside of the limited gender roles that we have constructed for them in this country,..." In other words understanding people would not be nearly as simple as boy or girl and the tendencies of the given gender. Rather everyone would be their own separate entity which we most decipher on our own.