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Like Lizzie Velásquez, Lewinsky has taken her experience as

a cyberbullying target and channeled those feelings to become

an activist. She is driven to put an end to cyberbullying. And she
offers these words of hope for targets of cyberbullying: “You can

survive it. . . . You can insist on a different end for your story.” 33

In a romantic relationship, people may send a sexually

revealing photo of themselves to their significant other. If the

relationship ends badly, the other person might angrily share
the photo with others via social media or text. This victimization

is commonly called revenge porn and is another type of

cyberbullying that men and women endure, though women

experience it more often. Yanet Ruvalcaba and Asia A. Eaton
surveyed 3,044 people and found, “Women experienced higher

rates of nonconsensual

pornography victimization

than men.” The purpose of “Women experienced higher rates
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of nonconsensual pornography
revenge porn is to publicly victimization than men.” 34
humiliate a person for his or —Yanet Ruvalcaba and
Asia A. Eaton
her sexual behavior.

CYBERBULLYING OF
LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS

The statistics demonstrate that those who are LGBTQ are

cyberbullied more often than those who are not. In 2010, Tyler
Clementi was a freshman at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

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