Henry Petersen
October 30, 2010
English 100O
Cynthia Selfe in the article properly titled Lest We Think The Revolution is a Revolution, explains the facts and the fears of technology in the world. This was written in the 90’s keep in mind, but doesn’t rule out the fact that she may be knowledgeable to the fact of technology changing the way we live. Within the first narrative Selfe proclaims that Americans have become lazy, and in doing so created an environment in their own world. How Cynthia puts it is that Americans can simply watch something on their television and say that they have the experience of whatever the program may be. Advertisements have greatly affected our way of living as well, and have convinced us to live as a whole. As Cynthia puts it, we must all work together as a tribe, not only to be cooperative, but also to help one another. In the second narrative goes on about the classes and the American dream and land of opportunity. That no matter how someone looks, or how they talk, how they eat, their will always be an opportunity for someone in the united states. On the other hand if someone were to take a closer look they would see that “The Land of Opportunity” isn’t as cracked up as it used to be. The graduation rates In schools, the jobs only available to some people, and the fact that no woman has been president….. Yet. The third narrative paints a picture for the feminists and the people who think that everyone regardless of sex can simply get along. Selfe points out that many programs on computers are related to the males of the world, and that most all computer programs benefit men. While the women of our country use the technology to help, or make it useful to themselves, their families, or at their work. Nowadays there is a large variety of games, and software for woman, and it is made for whatever purpose the woman desires. The ungendered utopia requires a lot of non-judgmental work with the sexes. So that men may escape the stereotypes of the usual references portrayed towards men. The same goes for women and the stereotypes they must escape. When it comes down to it the un-gendered utopia is a myth and is slightly possible in the future, but no where in the near future. People being judgmental is happening to radically to be stopped now. The final narrative is “Confronting Revised Narratives”. This last portion of the essay is directed towards facing the reality and confronting our issues as human beings. Not only will it take time for our perceptions of eachother to diminish, it will take a while to figure out what we really need.
B.) “In the connection with workplace technologies, men are allowed essentially the same tie and oxford cloth look in the nintey’s, as they were in the fifties…” This not only goes to show that men in the business world haven’t chaned from their old way of dressing and ways of carrying themselves, that the only thing that’s changed is the way men are outside the workplace. Men are changing from straight up business men to whatever they feel like.
“It takes energy and careful thinking to create a landscape in which women can participate in roles other than those of seductress, beauty, or mother; and in which men don’t have to be bikers or abusers or rapid techno geeks or violent sex maniacs” All these ways of seeing the world are just how the person is brought up and how they perceive everything. The woman can change to something outside of being a seductress, but the woman must make a conscious effort. As far as men go, they must decide what they want to be, and how they choose to do it.
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