It was really interesting to read the work of the graduate student Theodora Eliza Vacarescu. She makes very good points in her thesis but I'd like to point out some of my own understanding expanded from some of her ideas in the thesis.
As I was reading the Haraway text, it was dissapointing to get a feeling that she is speaking more of her relationship with her husband than cyborgs. Her husband was a homosexual and she got separated. It is very likely that she has many remarks made on cyborgs based on how are men seen by many feminists. There are many other points as such made like we are all cyborgs is something I do not agree. My overall understanding not based on Haraway is that men are monsters, through out the years they have become cyborgs with the intervention of technology to improve their monsterious status. In the movie Franskenstein, we got to see how the Bride of Frankenstein screamed when the bride saw Franskenstein. Men are scary therefore they are monsters and they no other desire than sex. But if you recall Franskenstein just wanted to be friends and Frankenstein did not have any other desires than bonding with the Bride. I really would not think that the theme of the movie, Franskentein, would be stretched this much other than speaking of monsters and cyborgs. It went as far as discussing the status of men and women in today's society from a monster or cyborgs perspectives. Since monsters and cyborgs are not pure human beings, how are we to call them male or female beings? We are not provided the definite details of such information either by Haraway or by the director of Frankenstein. So it would be wrong to make further claims by Haraway. These things are created and produced rather than naturally born. So they can not be compared to humans but only be contrasted between monsters and cyborgs.
Please feel free to comment on this topic as I'd like to know if someone else agrees with my suggestions on the matter.
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