Cyborg Manifesto

Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto is a very difficult read and confused me slightly because it stalk more of sociology and feminism more than cyborgs.It does however slightly explore how cyborgs could live. As she has pointed early in the article, cyborgs would not be like us(humans)because they would not have a gender or be made like us. However, cyborgs may have to be forced to follow the social structures everyone else does. The author compares them to minorities and possible having a lower status.There is something else that would bring trouble to cyborgs. According to Haraway cyborgs are "offspring of militarism and patriarcahal captialism, not to mention state socialism.

The term cyborg in Haraway's essay is more of a metaphor for woman. She talks about the women's role in the 20th century than compares it to cyborgs. Many times through the article, Haraway often mentions about a woman's place and thoughtout history it has been seen second to man. Race can also affect a person status in society while race and gender together can really harm a person's status. However people ofter fight against this. She also talks about women of color explain this.

This article makes me think about how global society view women and the possibility that if there were cyborgs what role they would have. Nevertheless, i believe it will be much later in my life before cyborgs as advanced as in science fiction occur.