The reality is that our online lives are as real and relevant and meaningful as our physical lives, so as women and girls, our ability to feel our full participation and voice online is absolutely imperative. It is imperative economically as well.
That's why I was so stunned by the example around understanding that revenge porn has not only an emotional cost on a woman or girl. We've heard this from women journalists who have been attacked online and have been trolled on Twitter. It makes them feel that they don't want to be online. Shutting down an online voice for them has real implications for their careers.
A young woman who simply wants to be able to be hired by a law firm and who wants to appear in the full recognition of the hard work that she's done in law school is not allowed to have that because her digital footprint is one of sexual images without her consent. There is that real economic consequence, and she's not alone in that. We heard that from so many women and girls at the beginning of their careers when they had that as their digital footprint.
I think, in general, when we hear about how women and girls are disproportionately cyberstalked and cyberharassed, we have to understand that it's not just emotionally wrong and dangerous but also understand what it means for women's and girls' voices online.