"The Pink of Stealth"
As the Internet first gained popularity in the mid 1990s, some cultural theorists argued that it was part of a new kind of virtual space (sometimes called cyberspace) that we enter as disembodied subjects whose identities are disguisable. Our bodies are left behind along with our genders, races, and ethnicities. In this new environment, our flesh-and-blood bodies don't register because they aren't visible. If a teenage girl could disguise herself as a middle-aged man, or vice versa, the old rules of identity no longer exist.
Other people argue that our embodied identities follow us onto the Internet, and that categories such as female, white, or hispanic are every bit as real online as off.
I personally agree with the argument that cyberspace allows us to completely change or disguise our identities.
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