In this way she is silenced before she even begins to try to speak. Although she is a user, she is denied user status in favor of the male and the predominate power structure which favors males. The old strategies of dominance are further reinforced through the eroticization of the new technology in the face of the male user. As we continue ignoring the politics involved in the introductions of technologies in our society, they have managed to cause us, none the less, to adapt to them and their processes. In the process women are made voiceless and controlled by male users.
Women become the supreme objects of male desire and control.
Their purpose becomes one in which they provide their bodies for the use of males. In the book technology has caused a complete transformation of the world, but the former power relations remain in place. Of primary interest here is the way in which the users have been defined as male and at what cost this comes to women. For the main character, Case, a cyberspace cowboy, the technology is his love. Technology is not merely a thing, it is a mate in which he is fully enveloped in his interactions with it.