In "Cyborg Manifesto" Donna Haraway tries to confront many existential observations. She believes that most people identify themselves and the ones around them according to gender, class, and species. Haraway claims that this is a problem because most people, instead of using these three attributes as simply a description, use these three attributes as identities. Haraway claims that most people are confusing what is a description with what is the most important element of a person- their identity.
Haraway knows that since many of us have identified with a specific gender, class, and species for our whole lives that it can be difficult for us to imagine identifying ourselves any other way. To get around that, Haraway uses the cyborg metaphor.
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