Part of the task in my act of be-speaking is to challenge those androgynous meanies, those who would attempt to render me a genderless cyborg.  A colleague who taught writing-to-the-web classes would schedule a class each semester where he held a MOOclass on the topic of gender-fair language.  He taught at Reneslear Polytechnic Institute, a stronghold of testosterone where less than 15% of the student population is female.  Five or six strong Amazonian women characters would disguise themselves with textual masks, usually by using initials as our character names.  We would engage his students, try to push some buttons.  At the end of the sessions, we would ask the students to categorize us, to impose a gender upon us.  We were, we strong wild women, almost always considered male. 
 
Although Haraway explicitly designates her cyborgian creature as female, the dominant presence on the Internet and therefore MOOspace is always considered to be male.  It is true that as of May 1996, numbers from the CommerceNet Consortium and Nielsen Media Research indicate that 66% of users of the Internet are male... that men stay online longer and more frequently than women, accounting for 77% of total usage.  But there is a strong female presence online:  on the Web alone many Wild-Women sites (like NetChick or Foxy Online) exist which call to other women to join their ranks without fear.  This presence is even stronger in academic-oriented MOOs.  Many of the most well-known MOOs were founded or co-founded by women.  Amy Bruckman at MediaMOO, Cynthia Haynes (with Jan Holmevik) at LinguaMOO, Janet Cross (with Kristin Fulgevik) at DaMOO, Traci Gardner at DaedalusMOO:  all were written by women.  All are blessed with a woman's touch.  And in all, diversity is encouraged. 

In MOOspace, gender is not assigned.  A character may choose her gender.  She may be female, she may be male, she may be gender-neutral.  She creates herself as she would have others of her world know her.  Within her Woman's Space, where she has created a room of her own, she can delve deeply into her cauldron and take out her E-motionally infused talismans with which she will pierce to the core the patriarchical hypocrisy of homogenousness.  She will expose herself and therefore expose other women.  Furiously fey, she will write with milky white code the words which will inscribe her destiny.  And through her words she will create reality.