Isn’t this gaslighting ?

B*tches are always joking but rarely have the balls to back their jokes up.

It's gaslighting with a halo on.

It is definitely a gaslighting tactic. The term can also refer to a pattern of this sort of behavior to the point where the victim no longer trusts their own perception of reality. The goal of such behavior is to get the person to a point where they dismiss their own judgement because they are at a point that they have been convinced they are the irrational one.

Ehhh, that's more like denial.

Gaslighting is usually an ongoing campaign of deny/reframing someone else's reality so much that they start to question their own senses and beliefs.

Yes, I take it as gaslighting.
Though they deny it and say I got no sense of humour. 😂

It is manipulation but it isn’t gaslighting. Gaslighting is literally when a partner or group try and make you question your actual memories. Like they did something to you and make you think it actually didn’t happen. It’s mostly emotional manipulation. Making you question your emotions rather than your memories. Like you responded to them inappropriately despite then making the insult.

depends why did it 🙄

This site is one huge head game.. those who act in any way innocent or victimized by mean mean other people should be considered the most likely to be up to no good when the curtains are drawn. Except for me. I'm the greatest lil angel this site has ever known. 😇

Oh I don’t care . If they are not a trusted friend I giv’em both barrels and remove them from My SW experience if they continue bothering me . Life is too short to let a SM site upset you for longer than a second or two

No, that's lying.
Gaslighting is when somebody who has been deaf for eighteen years answers the phone and recognizes the caller's voice. Then, when the caller screams "Dad! You can hear me!" He answers "I'm very busy right now, do you mind if I call you back?" And nobody in the family ever mentions the missing deafness- ever. Even when the caller tried to bring it up.

Yeah I'd say so. My friend's boyfriend does this to her all the time.

I think so, yes

Yes, that's definitely gaslighting.
Gaslighting minimises your feelings, makes you doubt your own feelings and even doubt facts you know happened.

It sounds like it. A lot of what I say is in jest, but I try to be sure people understand that. Its not always easy in text conversations.

Gaslighting is a pretty strong word for that, if it was continued instances of it in an attempt to make the person appear deranged maybe id call it gaslighting

Yes, that's one of the classics. Saying something really hurtful and toxic, and if you become angry, they immediately say, "Can't you take a joke? I was just kidding."

Avoid such person .

The idea it to make you feel crazy and second guess your stance.

This is now the common ploy.

Isn’t it?

absolutely

Yep. That's textbook gaslighting.

Yah sounds like it

Yeah basically, you can not have a conversation with a gaslighter, just pound your head against the wall instead

I think people like that are just idiots

It could be but probably not, depends on the intention. Gaslighting has a very specific intention of directed manipulating a person into believing they are crazy or to question their grasp of reality.

Just saying you didn't see something you did or backpedaling on a comment isn't gaslighting. Now if you did something with the intention of backpedaling and convincing them it didn't happen for the purpose of making them question their own perception that's what gaslighting is. It's another specific term that has been waterdown by general public overuse


quote] Gaslighting is a form of sustained psychological manipulation that causes the victim to question or doubt his or her sanity, judgment, and memories. [/quote]

beat up that person ;)