http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/08/things-wish-known-gaslighting/10 Things I’ve Learned About Gaslighting As An Abuse TacticAugust 27, 2015 by Shea Emma Fett
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Gaslighting tends to follow when intimidation is no longer acceptable.I believe that gaslighting is happening culturally and interpersonally on an unprecedented scale, and that this is the result of a societal framework where we pretend everyone is equal while trying simultaneously to preserve inequality.You can see it in the media constantly.
For instance,
every time an obvious hate crime is portrayed as an isolated case of mental illness, this is gaslighting. The media is saying to you, What you know to be true is not true.
Intimate partner violence wasn’t seen as a serious crime until the 1970s. So, did we, in the last forty years, address the beliefs that cause intimate partner violence? No.
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