Cynthia L. Selfe

The meaning behind the story "Lest We Think The Revolution is a Revolution Images of Technology and the Nature of Change," by Cynthia L. Selfe is very clear and well said. The story talks about how our culture is changing so dramatically that there may become gaps in our parts of the world. Some people who are less fortunate and unable to have these resources are not able to "keep up with the joneses," and have no opportunity to see other parts of the world then their own backyard. Selfe says that if you are not being stimulated in person by events going on in the world, you have no way to comprehend the real issues or social climate of such country. Also, stated in the essay were statements about how many men take over jobs dealing with computers, and there is a big gender gap. The internet is geared more towards men and not women, which doesn't help the gender gap. The real problem is women who have let the gender gap slow them down, and in turn more women rest on the social inequality, and idea that men should be more tech savy then women. I think that Selfe is trying to make the people of America notice that even though technology is helping speed up the travel of information, in turn technology is slowing others down who cannot afford or do not even know what a computer is in some parts of the world. Another big message in Selfe's story was the social feeling that women have when dealing with technology like the computer. If women allow themselves to step back and ease away from technology then they are only making the gender gap stay the same or grow. The only way that women can fight this social inequality is to be engaged and ready to learn new things outside of their "gender bounderies."