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Rating Site tactic targets girls' physical attractiveness

11/24/2014

Indiana school officials just learned what a cyberbullying Rating Site is this week. For the uninitiated, a Rating Site is when someone uploads a photo of the target and gets bystanders to vote on the victim's physical attractiveness.
Obviously this can go very badly, very quickly.

The authorities call it "Bracket Style Ranking System" and it can be very damaging to a girl's sense of worth to be so callously objectified and abused.

According to Fox.59.com, Zionsville senior Grace Labuzan said,
“A lot of girls were offended by this. I don`t know how they find it a joke. I`ve been bullied before, I want to speak out for those that are too afraid or too quiet to speak out against it because it is wrong."

Parents and educators, this is just the latest cyberbullying tactic that is essentially war on women and girls. Learn how to identify it, then learn how to fight it.

Know what to do when a group of people use Instagram, Facebook or Internet polls to upload someone's photo and get bystanders to vote for their "ugliest," "fattest," "dumbest" peers? Our new Parent's Guide To A Rating Website is available on Kindle for $2.99. Buy here.

Or get up to speed on five other cyberbullying tactics along with this tactic in our award-winning book Cyberslammed.

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High school revenge sexting rings: why girls need to STOP taking nude selfies

11/12/2014

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Jennifer Lawrence recently "quit the Internet" largely over the nude sexting photos she sent her boyfriend in private, which ended up hacked and stolen from the Cloud.

Girls under 18 do this every day, despite a decade of evidence to show them there is NO safeguard and NO guarantee that a nude sexting photo will ever stay private.

Yet, it is astounding how many people argue that there is nothing wrong with sexting, that it is a natural way to express oneself in a relationship.

Sure. Until it ends up in the wrong hands.

Two cases this month show how much revenge sexting is being used as a blackmailing tool, and in another case, as literal currency to be bought and sold.

This month a group of Chicago boys from a Catholic high school are all under investigation for cyberbullying a female student through the tactic of revenge sexting. Because they are all underaged, the boys are referred for one count each of distribution of child pornography.

And in New Hampshire, another pack of football buddies are under investigation for reportedly selling naked pictures of female students at school. While the school is trying to downplay this as some sort of "social media incident" (as if it was technology gone haywire) it's pretty clear from the article that 13 members of the freshman and sophomore football teams had gotten ahold of sexting photos from girls in their school and were making a profit off of someone else's humiliation.

This isn't just "boys will be boys." Can't say this enough. Do your sons know that saving, sending and selling under-aged sexting photos can land them in court, in jail and even on sex offender registry lists? Do they understand the ethical ramifications of completely ruining someone's online reputation? Jennifer Lawrence's sexting photos will eternally be available on the Internet. She knows this will be part of her legacy forever.

Do your daughters understand that they are also putting themselves in legal danger by sending sexualized "selfies" to a significant other? And that in this digital age of use and misuse, they inevitably will be shared to others, or posted online?

"No, he would never do that to me."

Well guess what? His football buddy, who stole his phone while he was in the bathroom, and forwarded it to himself-- just did.

Find out what to do step by step in a sexting or revenge sexting situation (when to alert the police-or not!) in our comprehensive book Cyberslammed.
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