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Gaslighting

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
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It falls into that strange category of words in which most of the people using it have no idea what it actually means.

At least on the Internet.

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  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I think it's a steampunk thing
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    Kinda wanna see the movie.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    The Boston Bombing happens mere hours after I first publish my Amazon wishlist but I'm supposed to be so gaslit I assume it's a coincidence.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I admit, this thread was inspired by seeing one person accuse another of "literally gaslighting me by implying I'm too angry" and I was like...that's not remotely what that means??
  • HavenHaven
    edited 2015-12-23 20:18:10
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    Maybe we've just gone from literally meaning actually, to literally meaning intensely, all the way to literally meaning "the exact opposite of, but I'm still right".
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    I believe they mean there that the 'gaslighter' is trying to trick her into getting angry by implying that she is angry.

    Which is kind of close?
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    Sort of kind of but not really. It'd only really become gas lighting if he straight up lied about the thing that made her angry and made her believe it didn't happen or something, really.
  • TanyaTanya
    Pizza Dog
    People do that all the time, it's a little frustrating admittedly, when it's words like gaslighting... sarcasm... but people will use a word that sounds close to what they mean, but does not actually fit the definition. That behavior is something I sympathy with.
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Counterclock said:

    People do that all the time, it's a little frustrating admittedly, when it's words like gaslighting... sarcasm... but people will use a word that sounds close to what they mean, but does not actually fit the definition. That behavior is something I sympathy with.

    Sympathize, Counterclock.  Not Sympathy.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    This is because people have heard the term but have no idea what it's a reference to because they're culturally illiterate callow youths who—

    >—>

    Never mind.

    Does anyone else know what it's a reference to here?
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Baldanders said:

    The Boston Bombing happens mere hours after I first publish my Amazon wishlist but I'm supposed to be so gaslit I assume it's a coincidence.

    i'm trying to understand the chain of causality here
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    a movie from the 40s with Ingrid Bergman in it IIRC?
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Yes, and Angela Lansbury.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    i dunno who that is tbh
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Calica said:

    Baldanders said:

    The Boston Bombing happens mere hours after I first publish my Amazon wishlist but I'm supposed to be so gaslit I assume it's a coincidence.

    i'm trying to understand the chain of causality here
    https://twitter.com/bad_kahina
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    oh, is this a parody
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    https://twitter.com/Redkahina A parody of this
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    JPeterman-esque Bacardi ad is imperialist propaganda and historical revisionism.
    #same
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Today is Tomorrow said:

    i dunno who that is tbh

    The mother in The Manchurian Candidate (the one with Sinatra), the original Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, the main character in Murder, She Wrote, Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast, and nominee for a truly outrageous number of awards.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    oh nifty
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    If Mad Men has never given Joseph Goebbels a writing credit, someone needs to report them to the WGA.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    whenever i read the words "imperial" or "imperialism" the drop from Noisia & Phace's Imperial plays in my head
  • Obā-sanObā-san

  • Obā-sanObā-san
    edited 2015-12-23 21:43:17

    one of the few times where blatant Modern Talking is not annoying
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Yeah, Gaslight was Lansbury's first film credit at eighteen. Since then she has been in a lot of stuff. She also seems to guest-star in episodes of random TV shows and then get nominated for Emmys just for showing up.
  • TreTre
    image
    100% No Modern Talking
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