Brandon's Selfe Post (Un-genderd Utopia)

Cynthia Selfe, in her essay "Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution", is communicating the narratives we assume to be true when relating to change and technology are often skewed from reality, and the way technology is changing. The third narrative Selfe covers, called the "Un-gendered Utopia" (305), is the assumption that when it comes to computers, males and females are equal. This narrative is terribly skewed, and full of idealism. In reality, there are more men using computers, and using them for productive tasks. Women are expected to use technology to better tend to their roll of "housewife". Selfe notes that most video games are designed for men/boys, and the technology is dominated by men.
Cynthia Selfe, makes many thought provoking claims, but her claim that "We cannot, indeed, even imagine, collectively, ways of relating to gender outside the context of our familiar historical and cultural set of experiences", I believe is very important. The problem is, we cannot even begin to relate to people of the opposite gender as anything but what history has taught us they are. To change this, we have to make the assumption that men and women are the same. In today's world, this assumption should be a given. Women and men are intellectually even and can accomplish all of the same tasks. If we look into history, when men started being the leaders of society, it was because they had to be. Women are generally smaller then men, and the only "hard" things to do at the time were physical labor. Men, being bigger, were thought of as leaders, because they could accomplish the most difficult tasks. In today's society, problems don't usually involve brute strength, so, in theory, women could easily rise to the top of the corporate ladder. The problem is the people with the 1950's era ideals, who refuse to believe everyone is equal.