What Does "Gaslighting" Actually Mean?
Gaslighting is sustained manipulation aimed at making someone doubt their own memory or perception. The word now gets used for ordinary disagreement, which has blurred something worth keeping precise.
Gaslighting is sustained manipulation aimed at making someone doubt their own memory or perception. The word now gets used for ordinary disagreement, which has blurred something worth keeping precise.
IYKYK stands for "if you know, you know". It marks something as an in-joke and declines to explain it, which is the entire point rather than a side effect.