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   5                 First, insisting that the computer is just a tool is a defense against the experience of the computer as the opposite, as an intimate machine<pc unit="sentence">.</pc>
   6                 It is a way to say that it is not appropriate to have a close relationship with a machine<pc unit="sentence">.</pc>
   7                 Computers with their plasticity and malleability are compelling media<pc unit="sentence">.</pc>
   8                 They have a psychological ‘holding power.’<pc unit="sentence"/>
   9                 Women use their rejection of computer holding power to assert <seg type="callout">something about themselves as women</seg><pc unit="sentence">.</pc>
  10                 Being a woman is opposed to a compelling relationship with a thing that shuts people out<pc unit="sentence">.</pc>
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