Societal rules about the role of males and females are being reproduced in cyberspace. If there is not a gender-free arena in cyberspace, there is still the capacity to lie about one's true gender and explore the feminine or masculine side of one's individuality. In fact, some women find it easier to identify themselves as males while online. Spender sees this as evidence for the sad state of affairs in our society. She explains how female writers used to take male pseudonyms in order to be taken seriously and sees this as much the same.
Men also use female aliases while communicating online.
K. K. Campbell signed onto a newsgroup under a female's account and was able to experience one of the ills of womanhood-sexual harassment. The anonymity of the Internet certainly allows for exploration of identity. Physical attributes and gender are currently essential to identification and there is the assumption that we are fixed into one identity. Cyberspace changes all that however and in so doing changes the way society views identity. Analysis Cyberspace allows society's perception of identity to move away from the notions that identity involves the physical and is unchanging.