The oppression and discrimination would be gone, but also centuries-old cultures. Yet in an ethic of innovation, the aliens would be welcome to do this. By destroying identity and culture, they would innovate, and facilitate further innovation. A feminism that constitutes a movement for the preservation of gender is conservative, and therefore wrong. Connectionism is originally a philosophical term, but it is also useful to describe a political and moral preference among feminists.
Many feminists promote care, interaction, and discourse.
For some, separation is a male principle. At present, the most important connectionist feminism is cyberfeminism, which had great hopes about the Internet. Metaphors of 'web' or 'weaving' were used by feminists, before they were applied to electronic communication. In the free market models of society, the participants are linked by a web of transactions. Cyberfeminism is a small movement, largely of feminist artists and philosophers, but is potentially a legitimising ideology for a global free-market economy with a large ICT sector.