Martha Lane Fox: YEUCH! The Internet is MADE by MEN?!?
16th October 2014
Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho has talked of her discomfort that the internet is made by humans who have a penis.
The former Martha Lane Fox, CBE, told the Radio Academy’s Radio Festival in Salford that she felt uneasy “that something that is now fundamental, like the water, for everybody’s daily life has been entirely produced by men.”
Alas, she’s right. Unlike Cuban cigars, which according to legend are rolled on the thighs of (female) virgins, internet packets arrive through a brutal, phallus-dominated patriarchy. It’s enough to make anyone queasy.