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The Feminization of Cyberspace

by Doctress Neutopia

During the final year of my doctoral work I discovered the new world of Cyberspace. Having been involved in utopian thought for more than fifteen years, inventing my own utopia from the ideas of such futurists and architects as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Starhawk, Eiane Eisler, Paolo Soleri, Buckminster Fuller, etc, which I call Neutopia, I find the world of virtual reality is the perfect place for my Neutopian imagination be to born into reality. The central nervous system of Neutopia is the evolving Global Brain which we are now seeing come about through information technologies and the world of Cyberspace.

Cyberspace is changing the very nature of text. Electronic text takes us into the age of non-text which means writing has become solely an electronic experience requiring no paper form. Printed matter is no longer necessary in the world of Cyberspace. In this world today, the power of ideas, and to some degree one's writing style and skills is the persuader. In the ideal sense, Cyberspace becomes a place for the autonomous individual, a place where the integrity of the Self is the determining factor of social prestige. With the elimination of printed matter and the decentralized nature of email, a new relationship between authoress/author and audience is opening up. Editors who have had the centralized control over the printed word are no longer the all powerful controller of literature since in Cyberspace the unknown poetess can post a message along side a literary giant. Because of the democratizing aspects of the Usenet open forum, the matter in which one gains social status is also changing. In Cyberspace, literary merit is achieved through the depth and sincerity of one's message. In other words, the old hierarchal structures of language and the old gatekeepers of ideas are being broken down as you read these words.

Nevertheless, Cyberspace is no paradise on Earth. Quite the contrary! I don't believe I am being an extremist. Renaissance and the rise the market economy. It s during this rebirth of classical thought when thousands ofinnocent women healers and religious ledrs were being burned as heretics.

A biologist friend has also pointed out to me that in his laboratory "flaming" means to sterilize a test tube from bacteria. In that sense, I feel that the majority of "flamers" are white upperly-mobile middle-class young menho are computer literate. Many of them are from the scientific class who are busy creating the Tecncracy. When I began to point out the blatant sexist language and attitudes on Leri, I was "flamed b some claiming that if I changed myself [conformed to their way of thinking], then I would be "lieraed from oppression". Still others believed that I would be saved if I found my way back to Christ or began to practice Buddhist meditation or yoga.

Finally, it was decided that the best thing they could do with my heresy was to follow the example of the Shaker Community. The worst punishment the Shakers did to a dissenting personality was to shun them and so this was what Listserve Leri proceeded to do to me. Other technicians proposed to bar me by setting up the technology called "kill filters" so that my email messages would not even appear on their screens.

New Mexico which all the members of the Leri Listserve were invited to so that people could meet one another in the living flesh. However, when I expressed interested in attending the party, the hostess said that if I came "she would have me shot." Then she wrote me a personal email progress in this underworld of Cyberspace, a place which also controls theuclear weapons of the world through the Computer Empire. This war is the same war which women haveben strugglingagainst for thousands of years. As the millennium changes, so too is it time to end this war which is draining our vital resources that are needed to save the Biosphere from total destruction. It is time that women be acknowledged as the natural sovereigns of the species so that we will be in a position to use our knowledge and wisdom we have in creating a world where all our benevolent dreams find a way to self-actualize.

My mission is to encourage Feminists to play an active role in the future of Cyberspace. Here is a window of opportunity open for us to play our role essential in forming the future social architecture of Cyberspace. If we, Feminists, do not act now and recruit other like minded Earthlings to take up the cause of the "Global Feminization of Cyberspace," then we will be caught in the same trap that we are in today. It is time for us to demand a new world where everyone has access to the global resources...a world where everybody's spiritual and physical needs are met. Only then will the Net become a vehicle of global emancipation and a home of the Neutopian thinker.

 
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