Here Ross, let me take the heat off you a little bit:
I am anti-feminist.
I'm all for women's rights and equal opportunity and respect for women and all that jazz, but I hate having the misogynist-acts of those who aren't, thrown in my face. Same goes for most politic problems in this country, I have my beliefs and no large number of raving lobbyists will change them (especially if I'm already on their side, then it's just annoying--i.e. feminism).
But I digress:
"Haraway also believes new technologies like video games produce, 'high-tech, gendered imaginations.'"Clearly she hasn't played a lot of the current (or not so current) RPGs, where gender has absolutely no weight on the main plot. To cite a couple examples
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I think the anonymity of the Internet also plays a role in this sort of digital equality of the sexes. In the LJ communities I socialize in with my regular journal, there are a lot of members with fairly gender neutral journal names. And a lot of times, given the nature of these communities, a lot of us tend to cast all of these gender-neutral journals as being written by female writers unless told otherwise.
I kind of felt like Haraway didn't have enough to say about cyborgs, so she just threw this feminist rant in the middle of her article to fluff it up. (Dr. Foys, if you're reading this, I promise I won't do that for my final project.)
I think that gender roles have been crossed as well. I I can't stand movies that show a man smacking a woman around then, she triumphs in the end. I also have issues with fight games where the opponent is a woman. What message is being sent? That a woman is as physically as strong as a man --- what a joke! I know that writers are attempting to even the field and appease the feminists; however, I feel that Haraway may have won a battle, but will ultimately lose the war. Young adolscent males are fighting females in a virtual world-- where will this ultimately lead?
Well kudos to you for getting through her essay ... I had to stop reading, and I felt embarrassed I couldn't get her radicalism (if that is even a word, which I don't think it is) as a female. Perhaps I will try tomorrow after I go and yell really loud about feminist rights (somewhere near earshot of matt- haha j/k)
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I am anti-feminist.
I'm all for women's rights and equal opportunity and respect for women and all that jazz, but I hate having the misogynist-acts of those who aren't, thrown in my face. Same goes for most politic problems in this country, I have my beliefs and no large number of raving lobbyists will change them (especially if I'm already on their side, then it's just annoying--i.e. feminism).
But I digress:
"Haraway also believes new technologies like video games produce, 'high-tech, gendered imaginations.'"Clearly she hasn't played a lot of the current (or not so current) RPGs, where gender has absolutely no weight on the main plot. To cite a couple examples ( ... )
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I kind of felt like Haraway didn't have enough to say about cyborgs, so she just threw this feminist rant in the middle of her article to fluff it up. (Dr. Foys, if you're reading this, I promise I won't do that for my final project.)
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I think that gender roles have been crossed as well. I I can't stand movies that show a man smacking a woman around then, she triumphs in the end. I also have issues with fight games where the opponent is a woman. What message is being sent? That a woman is as physically as strong as a man --- what a joke! I know that writers are attempting to even the field and appease the feminists; however, I feel that Haraway may have won a battle, but will ultimately lose the war. Young adolscent males are fighting females in a virtual world-- where will this ultimately lead?
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