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Gaslighting - Most vague phrase ever?
Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:22 am
Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:22 am
Maybe this is for the OT, maybe not.... I still don't have confidence that I really know what this term actually means.
Here's my stab...
Gaslighting - Artificially inflating the importance of an issue
Here's my stab...
Gaslighting - Artificially inflating the importance of an issue
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Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:25 am to skylane
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Maybe this is for the OT, maybe not
Have you tried googling it?
Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:25 am to skylane
quote:it is not remotely “vague.“ It has simply been misused so much, by so many people, that its meaning has become obscured.
Gaslighting - Most vague phrase ever?Maybe this is for the OT, maybe not.... I still don't have confidence that I really know what this term actually means.
Here's my stab... Gaslighting - Artificially inflating the importance of an issue
you must be young. Run a Google search on “gaslight IMDb.“
it means “providing false information in order to cause another person to believe that they are going insane.“
This post was edited on 7/14/23 at 7:26 am
Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:31 am to skylane
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Maybe this is for the OT, maybe not.... I still don't have confidence that I really know what this term actually means. Here's my stab... Gaslighting - Artificially inflating the importance of an issue
In the case of the current corporate news media, gaslighting is their coordinated efforts to mislead and deceive the American people with information that is either blatantly false, information that’s lacking full context, information that’s incomplete and more importantly, information that has a distinct and obvious political bias. This false or questionable information is run on a news cycle loop 24/7 until the people who are receptive to the gaslighting take the download.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:44 am to skylane
The Fairy religion is a prime example of how the government and society manipulates human beings.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:45 am to skylane
Gaslighting is when someone knows/observes the truth/reality and someone else purposely ignores that reality and tells you really there's a different reality.
Comes from a movie where a husband would slowly dim a stair gaslight each day, and then his wife would notice its dimmer making a comment to her husband to which he would feign ignorance even though he knew damn well it was dimmer. It was a psychological game ands she didn't question him because she trusted him. Even though she could observe with her own eyes the truth that the light had been dimmed, her husband still lied to her face about it.
Our news networks do the same to their constituents. They are granted a certain level of trust and will abuse it by lying and misrepresenting the truths even if those people can see the lie with their own eyes.
Comes from a movie where a husband would slowly dim a stair gaslight each day, and then his wife would notice its dimmer making a comment to her husband to which he would feign ignorance even though he knew damn well it was dimmer. It was a psychological game ands she didn't question him because she trusted him. Even though she could observe with her own eyes the truth that the light had been dimmed, her husband still lied to her face about it.
Our news networks do the same to their constituents. They are granted a certain level of trust and will abuse it by lying and misrepresenting the truths even if those people can see the lie with their own eyes.
This post was edited on 7/14/23 at 7:46 am
Posted on 7/14/23 at 7:46 am to skylane
It’s a fine phrase that serves a purpose, but like a lot of therapy speak, dummies online throw it around all the time to where it’s essentially meaningless. I’m not saying your parents weren’t “toxic” or that your boss isn’t actually a “narcissist” or whatever, but you probably aren’t the person that should be making those calls
Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:09 am to skylane
Gaslighting - The COVID vaccines are safe and effective.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:11 am to skylane
It's basically people trying to manipulate others for their own gain. Nothing new. Everyone's been doing since the dawn of time. Is it worse now? No. Is it an overused term? Hell yeah it is.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:15 am to skylane
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I still don't have confidence that I really know what this term actually means.
It's just brainwashing.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:25 am to skylane
Watch the movie Gaslight.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:28 am to skylane
My 16 year old son nailed how the term gaslighting is used today by saying “People use the term gaslighting to mean they disagree with what you are saying.”
Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:29 am to skylane
It’s a good place as the evolution of the term has placed it in political discourse
As others have noted, the origin goes back to a 1938 play “Gas Light” ( and American movie of the same “”Gaslight”). It’s evolved considerable since then. The extreme use of trying to seek commitment has eroded LINK
Even the colloquial use defined by psychologists above has evolved. It became a popular term for psychological manipulation in couple relationship in the 2000s to where there was an identification with f five different types. See, eg LINK
In modern times, it tends to refer to most types of psychological manipulation. You will see heavy use of the term in political discourse and in media criticism. You will see it used a lot on discussion boards. For instance, I’m sure it would not be hard to identify a couple of posters active right now, who every time they get caught being wrong, they will claim “that’s what I always said” or “I posted that years ago”
As others have noted, the origin goes back to a 1938 play “Gas Light” ( and American movie of the same “”Gaslight”). It’s evolved considerable since then. The extreme use of trying to seek commitment has eroded LINK
Even the colloquial use defined by psychologists above has evolved. It became a popular term for psychological manipulation in couple relationship in the 2000s to where there was an identification with f five different types. See, eg LINK
In modern times, it tends to refer to most types of psychological manipulation. You will see heavy use of the term in political discourse and in media criticism. You will see it used a lot on discussion boards. For instance, I’m sure it would not be hard to identify a couple of posters active right now, who every time they get caught being wrong, they will claim “that’s what I always said” or “I posted that years ago”
Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:40 am to skylane
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I still don't have confidence that I really know what this term actually means
People lying
Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:59 am to skylane
a catchy phrase millenial women love to use when a guy isn't treating them like the yass queen they think they are
Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:04 am to skylane
gaslighting
['gas?lidiNG]
NOUN
the practice of psychologically manipulating someone into questioning their own sanity, memory, or powers of reasoning:
"he said he was the victim of gaslighting" · "gaslighting is an insidious technique of deception and psychological manipulation"
['gas?lidiNG]
NOUN
the practice of psychologically manipulating someone into questioning their own sanity, memory, or powers of reasoning:
"he said he was the victim of gaslighting" · "gaslighting is an insidious technique of deception and psychological manipulation"
Posted on 7/14/23 at 10:03 am to skylane
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Here's my stab...
Gaslighting - Artificially inflating the importance of an issue
Posted on 7/14/23 at 11:54 am to skylane
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Here's my stab...
Gaslighting - Artificially inflating the importance of an issue
That's not it at all. The term has a very specific meaning. It means to pretend something that is happening, isn't actually happening. It's based off a movie where the husband turned down the gas lighting (among other things) then when his wife complained about it being dark he pretended the gas lights were perfectly bright and it was all in her head. He was trying to drive her insane.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:35 pm to skylane
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Maybe this is for the OT, maybe not.... I still don't have confidence that I really know what this term actually means.
Here's my stab...
Gaslighting - Artificially inflating the importance of an issue
Just normal average folks using a word to sound semi intelligent for a couple of months.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:47 pm to skylane
One of the advantages of being old enough to know stuff from pre Al Gore’s inventing of the interwebs.
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