• Lime Buzz@beehaw.org
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    20 days ago

    Actual gaslighting or lying, disagreeing etc that people have taken the word gaslighting for and misused it?

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      Gaslighting, as in those times when you tell your spouse the kitchen is on fire and they say “oh you’re just imagining things, that’s the aurora borealis in there”.

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        So you are using in its correct context of abuse (manipulation) over a long time period of time meant to make you question your perception of reality and often leads to poor mental health like it was shown in the original film and not a single instance of such which granted can still be abuse but is not exactly gaslighting?

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    19 days ago

    We have been thinking long and hard about this and figured out it isn’t just one thing, it is a mixture of:

    • Capitalism
    • Colonialism
    • Patriarchy
    • Misogyny
    • Racism
    • Cops
    • Constant surveillance
    • Monoallocisbinaryhetnormativity
    • Queer{phobia/misia}
    • Representative democracy
    • Monarchies
    • The legal system in most places
    • Heirarchy in general
    • Authoritarianism etc etc

    All these things keep causing extreme harm to the people who live under them yet we keep being told it is for our own good by those who have everything to gain from keeping things the way they are leading to people either tearing themselves apart by trying to live up to the impossible system/standards or failing to do so and dying or worse.