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Is it better to be a woman online or a man online? Which sex is more respected? Do women have better conversations then men or is it the other way around? Can women participate in a debate with men and still be heard? Are women being treated equally online in comparison to their male counterparts? These are some of the questions that are asked in the articles of Dale Spender and Laura Miller. Dale Spenders article entitled Gender-Bending, and Laura Millers article entitled Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier. In which the two female authors give their opinions about the good side and bad side of being a woman online.
In Dale Spenders article she describes how womens behaviors alter …show more content…

Spender believes that the experiment suggest that you need a male name to be taken seriously as a writer. Spender also believes that women writers took male names or gender-neutral names because they wanted to be taken seriously, they didnt want to be dismissed as just women. Spender says that it is even worse for a woman to try to speak the same way men do. When women do they are found to be domineering, bossy and aggressive. Through all these reasons Spender claims that women like the thought of the gender-blindness that the Internet offers. For women gender-blindness offers the possibility of being able to leave behind the rating that goes along with being a female …show more content…

If I am having a conversation and a male friend of mine interrupts I will tell him to let me finish and then he can say something, but if a stranger interrupts then I will let him/her have the floor. Regardless of gender when some one I dont know interrupts, I dont feel as confident in telling them to shut up or interrupting them back to finish my point.

I feel that gender is still hidden on-line, there is no real way to know the gender of the person you are talking to, unless to come right out and ask. But even then the person can be lying to you and all you can go on is what they tell you or what gender you think they are. Women can feel as comfortable on-line as they want to. If they are going to let every instant message that contains some kind of pick-up line in it offended them then on-line is not the place for them. Just like in real life when you are walking down the street and guys call out to you, or whistle you ignore it and walk on.

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