Internet=Feminizing Agent?

“For within living structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive.”
–Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury”

I've been reading some feminists for my thesis, even though I've never really been into the whole feminism thing before. It's actually interesting stuff, when I can digest it at my own rate. It seems to me that feminists attribute the overly rational nature of the Western, capitalist world to the masculine forces that founded it.

In positing an alternative, less rigid social order, Lorde looks to poetry, which she associates with women: "At this point in time, I believe that women carry within ourselves the possibility for fusion of these two approaches so necessary to survival [ideas and feelings], and we come closest to this combination in our poetry" (37).

Women, then, are allied with feeling, poetry, art. These are the very things I feel are added to a standard text (say a biography) when it becomes multimedia. So are we "feminizing" texts when we make them multimedia? Because the computer interface and the Internet so readily support multimedia, are they feminizing agents? Hmmmm...
(See next blog for theoretical follow-up.)