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The 41-year-old said: "Women age out of the male gaze. I was ripped from the male gaze at 24. I didn't just become invisible. I became a target for people saying derogatory things."

Once a derogatory name for Mexican Americans, the term “Chicano” was reclaimed as a political identity during the 1960s, born out of their fight for civil rights in the American Southwest.

"He responded with words I don't want to quote, derogatory ones about my mother," he remembers.

It's a tricky enough high wire to have the derogatory phrase "cafeteria Catholic," someone who selectively decides what parts of the faith to accept and what to reject.

As of March this year, eight people have been apprehended for making such derogatory and defamatory online posts.