Selfe Narrative #3 Chris,Cai, Kai, Maddie,Hannah

The popular narrative and revised narrative that Cynthia Selfe writes about in “Lest we think the Revolution is a Revolution” are Un-gendered Utopia vs. The same Ole Gender Stuff. The Un-gendered Utopia that Cynthia describes is that where men and women both have equal opportunities in the work place and social dominance regardless of gender. This is the idea that Selfe presents as a given and is popular idea.

The revised narrative “The Same Ole Gender Stuff” is men use technology to accomplish things, while women use technology to enhance the ease of their lives or to benefit their families. “Fewer girls use computers in public secondary schools than do boys, especially in the upper grades, fewer women enter the advanced fields of computer science than to males….computer games are still designed for boys” Selfe talks about how advertisements are still using cultural ideas and reinforcement from the 1950’s in today’s commercial and advertisement world of technology and applying its old

Americans and educators tend to revise the narrative Selfe says “to fit more snugly with the historically determined contexts that are familiar and comfortable to us.”

The consequences of us “rewriting” popular narratives is that we continue “old cultural” habits that limit women in the world, instead of progressing to where gender roles are equal.

We limit the actual participation of women and men within this landscape to the more traditionally determined gender roles we have already constructed within our culture.