We think the Revolution is a Revolution

Part A: My section was from page 316 to the end of the text. In “Lest We Think the Revolution Is a Revolution”, Cynthia L. Selfe creates a very stereotyped way of living for men and women. She comments on what men specifically wear and how they act in and out of work. She says that in work they are the “successful architect-net-cruiser” and once they are out of work, they are like every other man in “traditional and retrograde roles of bikers, nerds, and sex maniacs” (Selfe 316). I think she is just stereotyping here, and saying that men just look at the media and imitate what they see. For women she says its easier to play the role of a mother, seductress or beauty. This is all about playing rolls for Selfe, and how it is just easier to play the roll of something than to play against it. If you really wanted to play against it though, I think it would be simple to do that.

Part B: Selfe at one point says “It will be exceedingly difficult for Americans to imagine an electronic landscape in which individuals enjoy new kinds of opportunities to relate to each other and new kinds of opportunities to make positive changes in their lives” (Selfe 316). I believe that Selfe is trying to say that it will be hard to adapt to change. That Americans still want to play the roll of the male going to work, coming home and relaxing, and the female looking all motherly. I think she is also trying to say that if we allow it to change, if we give it the opportunity to change, than we can make it something positive in our life.