Comment on master manipulators
Raab@lemmy.world 12 hours agoI think it’s more along the lines of cats gaslighting humans to care for them…that’s where I grew the comparison.
Comment on master manipulators
Raab@lemmy.world 12 hours agoI think it’s more along the lines of cats gaslighting humans to care for them…that’s where I grew the comparison.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
That isn’t what gaslighting is, though. “Gaslighting” isn’t simply emotional manipulation; it’s a specific kind.
Raab@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You mean like manipulating humans into believing they are helpless animals that need to be brought in, and taken care of?
The specific kind of psychological manipulation in this case used by cats over millennia, by definition of the word, is gaslighting lol
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 10 hours ago
Thankfully it’s the year 2024 so if you literally spent 5 seconds doing a search you would find a real definition
Cats cannot do this.
Raab@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Did you even read your quote? A subjective stance from an assistant professor of sociology who studies gaslighting IN RELATIONSHIPS AND THE WORKPLACE. That’s a severe lack of a “real definition” my guy. Go watch the 1944 film Gaslight from which the term was coined.