Cynthia L. Selfe summary

In Cynthia L. Selfe's "Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution" pages 305-309, she focuses on the gendered world we live in, and the reinforcement of technology in widening the gap between males and females. With these advances in technology, it is not only designed and presented to one gender more predominantly, but if the females use the more masculine technologies, they use them only to further the family or boss at work. What was thought to originally be used as a bridge between cultures, class, race and gender, instead seems to be what is widening the gap between each. As a culture that likes to take over and dominate society, we have been able to accomplish that by suggesting that you are somehow less intelligent or of less significance if you do not use these technologies, or if you do not use them correctly. Again separating gender is the idea of the somewhat perfect utopian 50's, whose ideas have translated into the work place where the male is the more accomplished ones, and the female needs to help out by answering phones and doing remedial tasks.
"Men use technology to accomplish things; women benefit from technology to enhance the ease of their lives or to benefit their families" (Selfe 308). This quote intrigued me when going over our section in depth during class. It seems to sum up the purpose in which technology has been used forever. Females tend to get the cooking and homemaking technologies thrown at them, where as males have gotten the tools that allow them to be the provider and so forth. Though I believe the gap has been growing smaller, these ideas still have transferred into each generation. These days I believe though that females and males have been educated in many of the same ways in the technologies available, though the idea of both race and class have probably become a larger problem. With new and improved forms of technology coming out every month, it is hard to keep up with the latest trends. So I guess when one gap seems to be closing, the other gaps may be widening even further.