commment on “Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain”

I have just read “sorry boys, this is our domain” by Stephanie Rosenbloom and it made a lot of sense to me.I agree to the fact that guys are more into impressing others while the girls are more about personal expression. The fact that girls are dominating the guys over the usage of the internet is quiet intimidating. I am surprised at how these young girls are able to create web contents such as web blogs, graphics, photographs, web sites, and etc. I would say this is definitely a sign of something new that is going to occur.

I feel there are two sides to this story. The first side would be that the girls want probably want to compete with the guys. Knowing the fact that guys are supposedly get lazier, they can take a big advantage of it and extend a huge lead in this field.The girl I that caught most of my attention was Martina Butler, 17, of San Francisco, who for three years has been recording an indie music show, Emo Girl Talk, from her basement. She claims to be the first teenage podcaster to receive any major sponsorship. She received her first corporate sponsorship, from Nature’s Cure, an acne medication. Before she knew, she had half a dozen of companies that were willing to paying her just for advertising their product.

The second side of the story would be while creating content enables girls to experiment with how they want to present themselves to the world, they are obviously interested in maintaining and forging relationships.

I learned that as teenage bloggers nearly doubled from 2004 to 2006, almost all the growth was because of “the increased activity of girls,” the Pew report said.

The thing I found funny was the fact that even though girls surpass boys as Web content creators, the imbalance among adults in the computer industry remains. The reason for this imbalance is that the introductory courses in most undergraduate programs are often uninspiring. With very little female role models,it is harder to get the girls actually study in that field.

Pat Gill, the interim director for the Institute for Communications Research and an associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, explains how, historically, girls and women have been expected to be social, communal and skilled in decorative arts ,while boys and men are generally taught to engage in ways that aren’t confessional and that aren’t emotional.