Internet safety nonprofit According to Internet Matters, 77% of British females between the ages of 13 and 16 report having had negative or potentially hazardous internet encounters.
Parents “are coming to regard online harassment of girls as normal – verging upon trivializing it,” according to the report.
Co-executive Carolyn Bunting of the charity expressed concern that “we’ve collectively lost sight of the fact that what is unacceptable offline should also be unacceptable online,” despite the fact that most parents “are doing their best” to help their children.
In an interview with Internet Matters, a mother of a 15-year-old daughter claimed that “dick pics” are “so standard it’s not noteworthy and they just block it and move on”.
She continued, saying, “I don’t think it has had a deleterious effect on her, and she didn’t tell me, it has become a completely standard thing to happen to a teenager.”
