Post by nesmaghaly on Mar 24, 2016 20:38:11 GMT
In Brophy's article, online feminist activists are determined to experience disembodiment that goes hand in hand with participating in cyberutopia: a term often used to describe the social space online. The author defines the term 'disembodiment' as a practice of the leaving the body behind in the sense that the individual is free of their unique persona in all its conventions. The author goes on to describe that this practice “frees the user to be judged solely on their online presence, which they are able to carefully construct”. However, because individuals are therefore judged based on their disembodied persona, aren't they then judged as a commodity since they are also self-branded? Because feminists can “experiment with fewer social or bodily consequences”, would they even want to embody themselves within their own context? Or would personalization make feminists feel less empowered?