Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for November 25, 2020

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    mddshubby2005  almost 4 years ago

    Second only to her hatred of axsplaining.

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    RAGs  almost 4 years ago

    …or of being home on the range…

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I haven’t seen that movie in . . . what, four decades? I may need to refresh my memory.

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    zekepotato  almost 4 years ago

    gaslighting someone is convincing them they are hallucinating when in fact they are in real danger

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    Gent  almost 4 years ago

    Now, if you’d step into the kitchen here, I’ll help solve all your fears so that you’ll never be afraid of anything ever again.

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    Vilyehm  almost 4 years ago

    The couch has no indentation because for once this is where there is too much stuffing.

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    Darryl Heine  almost 4 years ago

    Why gaslighted?

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    mikeyman  almost 4 years ago

    or gas grilled

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Gaslighting is an attempt at control, whereby someone gets you to question your sanity…

    and come to rely on his or her version of reality, where you are no longer capable.

     

    It doesn’t necessarily involve physical danger…. unless the person trying to control you intends any harm…

    But it can give you a false sense of insecurity, and a belief that your controller is protecting you.

     

    That movie (and play) title is the origination of the term…

    in it, the husband manipulates the gas lights and also talks loudly in the attic…

    then denies that the lights dim or that voices come from upstairs, to make his wife think she’s losing her mind.

    He intends to have her committed, and steal her property.

     

    The turkey’s real fear, however, isn’t actually gas-lighting, but lit gas.

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