Molly's long nails: In class on Monday when we discussed Molly, there was a comment made that long nails in America have this stigma of impracticality, and that Molly's nails are useful. When I thought about her nails, especially in relation to Asian culture, I pictured instead those sharp metal nails (I wish I knew what they were called) that Chinese women used to wear on their fingers. They were typically worn on the pinkie and ring fingers, and while I do not know what they were used for (ornamentation, probably), in Chinese shows or movies, sometimes an angry aristocratic woman will use them to viciously scratch someone else.

Additionally, I thought it was really interesting that Molly had surgery on her eyes. I don't know if this was common back when Gibson wrote Neuromancer, but nowadays, surgery is not uncommon among Asian women (Japanese, Koreans and Chinese). Many undergo plastic surgery to get larger "double eyelids" (an effort to assimilate with Western culture...? Japanese magazines even have tips on how to apply makeup so that Asian eyes will look more like Caucasian ones).

P.S. Who else thinks Molly is a J.A.M.F.?