History of Feminism

cinnabonbon

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2. I suppose you can just call it manipulation.

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 12:26 PM

Jan 2014

but yeah, the guy in your example could be gaslighting his wife and mistress, if either one confronted him about the cheating and he brushed it off and blamed it on her "emotional state". When people deflect real issues and blames it on (what they believe is) a flaw in your mental health, that's gaslighting.

When I think of gaslighting I tend to think about how people react to feminism in the beginning. You know, with disbelief and the accusation that something must be wrong with you.

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What is gaslighting? [View all] cinnabonbon Jan 2014 OP

kind of like when a married man pretends to be "single" ... and then pretends to "want" to Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #1

I suppose you can just call it manipulation. cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #2

the intent to mislead. I think gaslighting is now recognized as a psychological term. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #3

Oooh, nice! cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #6

Gaslighting Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #4

Yep. cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #5

yep. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #7

That is the most important. cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #8

The more you know the more subtle has to be the abuser. Some are really into Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #9

True. I suppose it depends on how interested they are in cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #10

kind of like Cat and Mouse ... sometimes they get bored with it all. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2014 #11

It's an asshole nt ismnotwasm Jan 2014 #12