Within the context of the dominant masculinist worldview, technology extends man’s power. As Francis Bacon asserted in his Aphorisms, “Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” Of course, “knowledge is power” is a truism, and power is typically defined as the ability to control one’s environment, which is coded feminine in Western culture (Rushing 161-62). Janice Hocker Rushing has associated the notion of gaining power over a text with the metaphor of the hunt. She argues that the scientific method has long been metaphorized as a weapon, with nature being treated as prey (158). Rushing claims that the scientific method also has metaphorical associations with artistic discovery and sexual penetration (157). And insofar as the disciplines of rhetorical, cultural, or literary criticism aspire to the status of the hard sciences, the “critic, above all, must be in control” (Rushing 160). A good masculinist scholar must stay on top of the text or a body of knowledge. This metaphorical pattern can be further extended so that the hypertext-equipped computer becomes the weapon and online “content” the prey. I am reminded here of a statement by Johndan Johnson-Eilola regarding the “narrative as personal journey through an untamed intellectual wilderness, through which the writer travels in order to return to future readers with stories of intellectual conquest.”