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frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Thankfully it’s the year 2024 so if you literally spent 5 seconds doing a search you would find a real definition

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that hinges on creating self-doubt. “I think of gaslighting as trying to associate someone with the label ‘crazy,’” says Paige Sweet, Ph.D., an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan who studies gaslighting in relationships and in the workplace. “It’s making someone seem or feel unstable, irrational and not credible, making them feel like what they’re seeing or experiencing isn’t real, that they’re making it up, that no one else will believe them.”

Cats cannot do this.

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Raab@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨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.

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- frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Webster
  
  psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one’s emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator
  
  Can you spot the difference? I cannot. And cats still can’t do this.
  
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  - Raab@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Manipulation of the perception of reality is where my argument comes from. Your rude ass tone and pretentiousness are unwelcome. Have a good one boss.
    
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    frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Do you seriously not get I was messing with you? I literally exhibited the behavior described as gaslighting in the same message where I pasted the definition. I tried to be as obvious as possible and apparently even that wasn’t enough.
    
    Or are you just butthurt about the parts where you didn’t bother to search?
    
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    PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Sorry you were wrong and it hurt your feelings, but you’re clearly the rude one in this thread. Not sure what the color of their ass has to do with any of this though…
    
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- PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, because words used in modern context are always best defined by their most archaic usage 🙄🙄🙄
  
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  - Raab@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    To that point, words used in modern context are also up for interpretation and free thought. :)
    
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    PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    All words are up for interpretation, that’s what language is. You just haven’t made a real argument for how you’re deciding to interpret “gaslighting.”
    
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