Traditional gender binaries such as male/female, science/nature, mind/body, are replayed and reinforced again and again in sci-fi films, in which (male) scientific creativity is continually represented as a dangerous affront to "natural" human (female) values. Supercomputers in film are created by male scientists--I can think of no exceptions--and what makes them valuable (according to their creators) is that they lack characteristics traditionally linked in our culture with the feminine: weakness, empathy, emotion, unpredictability. --He, She, It: Engendering Machines, Gendering Intelligence (Cybercinema, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)One of many short essays grouped into the categories intelligence, fear, god, love, and self.
He, She, It: Engendering Machines, Gendering Intelligence
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