Carnival of CYBORGS!?!

In this past week's blog posts some are still pondering bell hooks while some are taking on the challenge of understanding what it is to be a cyborg and its significance within our culture.

I fell like brent5722 got hooks point about how mass media, specifically movies, create the ideas we have about race and gender. This is an important point in understanding rhetoric and how we get our beliefs and how we are persuaded.
http://brent5722.wordpress.com/

And now for the cyborgs.....

Orange6677 says makes an important point about traits of women being seen as more emotional and how it is seen as a negative thing. We as society believe that only one way works and that is the one we are used to and that is being strong. Orange6677 comments "not showing emotion which hinders our society’s freedoms and humanisms." The tough facade is a metanarrative used in our culture to show that tough guy is admirable but really may not be the case.
http://orange6677.wordpress.com/

shrtygrlmj notes that Haraway "considers irony a rhetorical strategy and a political method that could be put to use in socialist-feminism." This blog does a nice job of breaking down how we interact with our culture to build cultural constructs and how looking at things through a cyborg POV breaks down gender barriers and ideas.
http://shrtygrlmj2006.wordpress.com/

subliminal piracy's blog also focuses on how ideas and definitions are constructed in our culture saying "This is an inevitability of man/nature because we have made it such." There is few that is "natural" but rather what we have made it. Through all these ponderings, subliminalpiracy seems to have more questions the answers which a piece like Haraway's can leave you with, saying "Perhaps it will be a useful tool to create a more unified world between the masculine and feminine. Perhaps it will destroy us, because we blind ourselves to the real issues. Who knows…"
http://subliminalpiracy.wordpress.com/

The Wilmington Witness focuses more on the solution to our gender based society saying that the author "urges us to reconstruct the boundaries of everyday life, in partial connnection with others, and in communication with all of our parts." in order to destroy gender constructs.
http://charlierox.wordpress.com/

uncwgirl puts it well saying that Haraway's "feminist views show how there is always a male-focused way of looking at things and it will be a long time until that is overcome. She sees it is a form of evolution; a link in time that will change forward to new ideas to benefit humankind." can't sum it up much better than that.
http://uncwgirl.wordpress.com/

kj08 gives a refreshing and creative view of the cyborgin their. I don't fell that I should break it up by trying to pick out the main idea or an important point , it really should be taken as a whole.
see it here... http://kj08.wordpress.com/

Finally to conclude this carnival i will include the comments of Kmoney393: "with the addition of these new technologies, efforts are made to make men and women equal. the key to doing this is to change the way of thinking about male domination. it shouldn’t be attacked with hostility; the hardships should be embraced and the mindset should be based on survival in new areas of society outside of old ideas of women in the kitchen, not male bashing." While changing ideas we have about sex and gender we gotta keep it positive and enlightening.....
http://kmoney393.wordpress.com/