Late Late Late! OF WOMANBORG

Hey everyone-
I get to be the token after-the-fact poster today!

I'm Jenna. I'm from the infected toenail of the United States, also known as the suburbs of Los Angeles, or the porn capital of the world. I'm a senior in Spanish and Journalism. I'm also a quasi-radical feminist and enjoy reading feminist literature in my free time (hence all my annoying comments in class). I was actually told this class was called "Feminist Topics in German Literature," but cyborgs work too.

So I said this in class, but what I found most interesting about Oler's article was her description of the changes in representations of "wired women" throughout the twentieth century. It's kind of proof that pop culture both creates and reinforces cultural expectations and ideals-- the "perfect" fembot's characteristics changed to conform to (or dictate?) whatever society's definition of the "perfect" woman happened to be at the time.
This could open up a discourse regarding the power of pop culture--- if some true feminist material could actually break through the barriers that seem to keep positive images of women out of the media, maybe people would start to believe it. It would sure be nice if women had some role models besides Carmen Electra or Paris Hilton. How about a fembot that doesn't rely on men for anything? Or maybe a fembot with SMALL boobs? Hm...