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Although the early settlements in cyberspace have tended to be male dominated diversity does exist on the Internet. In fact a 1994-95 study revealed that women comprise 34% of Internet users. Feminism as it came of age in the opposition to nature and life. Postmodern feminist theory of the 1980s on the other hand can be called technomania rather than technophobia because it extolled the notion that technology was creating a race of cyborgs.

Cyberspace is a medium of electronic communication used by individuals in technologically advanced contexts and countries in particular social configurations. Cyberspace is a new medium with slippery categories and ways of thinking about one part of cyberspace say email reflect ways of conceptualizing it as a whole. The predicaments of social life in physical space are replicated in cyberspace. Cyberspace is an extension of physical space and experiences in cyberspace as a matter of course spill over to physical space to affect an individuals physical and local life. Thus the images women choose and websites they build exemplify highly conventional roles and ideas women feel safe presenting before strangers.