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- 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. - It is a way to say that it is not appropriate to have a close relationship with a machine. - Computers with their plasticity and malleability are compelling media. - They have a psychological ‘holding power.’ - Women use their rejection of computer holding power to assert something about themselves as women. - Being a woman is opposed to a compelling relationship with a thing that shuts people out. -

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+ 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. + It is a way to say that it is not appropriate to have a close relationship with a machine. + Computers with their plasticity and malleability are compelling media. + They have a psychological ‘holding power.’ + Women use their rejection of computer holding power to assert something about themselves as women. + Being a woman is opposed to a compelling relationship with a thing that shuts people out. +

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