I see people saying that they gaslight other people but I don’t get it. Thank you in advance
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There was a play/movie where a guy hates his wife and cheats on her, and spends every night searching the apartments around the building for some jewels he wants to steal that he heard a murdered woman hid in the building. As he turns lights on and off in the building the gas powered lights in the apartment flicker, and as he cuts and hammers through walls he makes sounds, his wife hears and sees these things and he repeatedly tells her she is simply hearing and seeing things until she thinks she has gone insane because she is SURE the lights are dimming and she hears sounds in the walls, but he keeps telling her he hears and sees nothing. (in the end she figures it out and sends him to jail, with a twist that feels like it was written like she originally was going to kill him, since it has a twilight zone ending where now everyone thinks she is insane and she points out that being insane she can no longer be held responsible for her actions)
In the modern age ‘gaslighting’ is doing something very openly then claiming you aren’t doing it in a way that is intended to make the person doubt themselves. Like repeatedly calling someone fat then like, when they call you out on it acting all fake confused and being all “I never said such a thing, why do you make all these things up??” then going back to slipping into a bunch of fat jokes until you get called out again and act all confused.
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