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[two characters are arguing under a spotlight]

[purple, annoyed] Are you gaslighting me?

[blue, pissed] What's gaslighting? There's no such thing It never existed

https://thebad.website/comic/gaslighting

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Gaslighting doesn't exist, you made it up because you're a crazy bitch!"

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I remember this wording from Rick and Morty, but does it also predate that?

[–] Kevlar21@piefed.social 11 points 5 days ago

“I’m not gaslighting you, you’re just crazy”

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fun fact, the movie out of which this word comes from is available in high resolution for free on PeerTube, the Fediverse's answer to YouTube.

[–] Bad@jlai.lu 8 points 5 days ago

No it's not.

And it has never been.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 4 days ago

Vidiverse search isn't working on the instance I use. You gotta link to "1944 Gaslight" for the underprivileged?

[–] doppydrop@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the phrase is gas lamping, I don't know anyone that uses the phrase gaslighting.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 4 days ago

Ah, a fellow GPB enjoyer, spreading the Truth about gas lamping.

/s

[–] Jmsnwbrd@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

None of these, including the cartoon are examples of gaslighting. This is much more complicated than just telling someone they don't remember something as they see it in their mind. It's a series of ongoing purposeful lies to manipulate someone into your control. It's the same type of misconstrued understanding of bullying. If someone treats you like an asshole - it does not mean they're a bully. . . It just means they're an asshole. Bullying is comprised of an ongoing mental/physically manipulation of someone in order to dominate them. Other examples of new gen cherry picking include the miss used "anxiety" and "OCD". I work with teenagers who use social media too much and love to self diagnose and/or mislabel.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Every time my wife is wrong about something she accuses me of gaslighting, and all I can say is “no, you.”

“Gaslighting” and “narcissist” should be forbidden words to those without graduate degrees in psychology.