Internet Stereotypes

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During its twenty some years, the Internet kingdom has changed many different aspects of our civilization. The Internet has made things faster, better, and more accessible. Google and Facebook make the earth look like a small village and Wikipedia make everything seem understandable. Yet Internet has more to offer; there are “Revenge Porn” and “Is Anyone Up?”. Websites like Revenge Porn distribute nude and topless photos “without consent in an effort to humiliate and hurt their targets, mostly females.” Studies by Cyber Civil Rights Initiative “show that 47 percent of the victims contemplate suicide.”

As we see today, male dominated media showcases the female body as an object of desire and tries to set norms and protocols for a perfect

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