Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution

In Cynthia Selfe’s “Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution” she discusses popular narratives of America dealing with new technology advancements, and how unfortunately these changes we aspire for are not happening as we may think. One myth Selfe talks about is “The Un-Gendered Utopia” and how we believe that whether we are male or female we have equal roles. However there is a boundary that is failed to be recognized, these genders roles are a predictor of social standings and its human nature or habit to have a say in what happens. For instance, Selfe writes, “While we maintain the vision of an electronic landscape that is open to all innovative and hardworking people, regardless of their gender, we also limit, the actual participation of women and men within the landscape to the more traditionally determined gender roles we have already constructed within our culture.” These traditional roles are sought out as being the men are set in with classic supporter of the household, and the women continue to manage the home and take care of their lifestyle. Speculations as to why this can’t stop happening perhaps could be that our society is not prepared for the new, and we take what we know and apply it to anything new that arises. By focusing on how we have applied gender roles to everything. Selfe overlooks the deeper problem of coming up with a solution. It is easy to enforce that America has an issue, but we have come very far. And even though there is obviously still a conflict going on between the myths and revisions maybe the bigger problem is that we know and still won’t do anything. Action needs to take place in furthering us down the line of becoming the complete “Un-Gendered Utopia.”