{"id":85913,"date":"2023-09-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85913"},"modified":"2023-09-04T09:39:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:39:24","slug":"insidious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85913","title":{"rendered":"Insidious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Article on how to respond to being “gaslit”…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…gaslights half the species (emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The form of emotional abuse<\/a>, where someone seeks to make a person doubt their own sanity, is something experienced by many\u00a0\u2013 particularly women, who, according to a 2018 policing report<\/a>, account for\u00a095% of all\u00a0gaslighting<\/a>\u00a0victims<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The linked report, by the way, relies on British police reports from domestic abuse situations in relation to an expansion of domestic abuse law to cover “coercive control”, something that the researchers point out is fuzzy, vague and not the subject of any broad consensus, but was passed by a legislature wanting to expand the definition of “domestic abuse”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put another way – data gathered by mental health non-professionals about an ill-defined offense in an area of law that is heavily weighted against men to begin with, related to a psychological phenomenon that even mental health professionals don’t entirely agree on, is being used to tell men they are inclined to abuse women – not to mention giving women the oddly Victorian notion that they are just plain less capable <\/em>of abuse, particularly psychological abuse, than men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So – do I credit this to a writer with an agenda? Or to a sloppy, probably 20-something pseudoacademic writer who eagerly prattles what she’s told on command?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I say “why choose?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article on how to respond to being “gaslit”… …gaslights half the species (emphasis added by me): The form of emotional abuse, where someone seeks to make a person doubt their own sanity, is something experienced by many\u00a0\u2013 particularly women, who, according to a 2018 policing report, account for\u00a095% of all\u00a0gaslighting\u00a0victims.\u00a0 The linked report, by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85914,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85913\/revisions\/85914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}