Summary
In the first instalment of our poignant, hard-hitting series: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss; Hannah and Maia breakdown "gaslight" and its terrible evolution. From a 1944 psycho-thriller starring Ingrid Bergman about a woman being tormented by her greedy husband, to a catchall for anytime anyone is ever unfriendly to us - the term "gaslight" is now a spectre of what it used to be. In this little series we ask - is this a natural linguistic evolution, or is the cultural abstraction of these words more damaging than we think?
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SOURCES:
Caleb Madison “Are You Using Gaslight Correctly?” (2022), The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/are-you-using-gaslight-correctly/629522/
Ella Feldman, “‘Gaslighting’ Is Merriam Webster’s Word of the Year”, (2022) Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gaslighting-merriam-webster-word-of-the-year-180981203/
Paige L. Sweet, “The Sociology of Gaslighting” (2019), American Sociological Review https://www.jstor.org/stable/48602118
Daniel Kurtzleben, “When Republicans Attack ‘Cancel Culture’ What Does It Mean?" (2021), NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/965815679/is-cancel-culture-the-future-of-the-gop
Ben Zimmer (2017) https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2017-January/145910.html
Julie Beck, “The Concept Creep of Emotional Labor” (2018), The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/arlie-hochschild-housework-isnt-emotional-labor/576637/
"What is Gaslighting?”, National Domestic Violence Hotline https://www.thehotline.org/resources/what-is-gaslighting/
Chi Luu, “Do You Even Language, Bro? Understanding Why Nouns Become Verbs” (2016), JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/in-which-we-science-why-nouns-become-verbs-because-language/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:21.0 | Hey, Hannah. Hi, Mia. What's up? We just ate a little pastry. It was quite literally, like when you think of a little French pastry, that's what it was. I know. I felt like out of a cartoon because it didn't really look like anything, but then it was something. It was a little pink bulb with like some lavender leaves on the top, some little lavender petals on the top. It's yummy. |
| 0:22.1 | Self care. |
| 0:23.2 | Who are you? |
| 0:24.2 | I'm a, I'm a YouTuber. |
| 0:28.9 | And that's all I've got going on for me. |
| 0:31.1 | That's not true. |
| 0:32.1 | She's many things. |
| 0:33.1 | She's a great friend. |
| 0:34.8 | Sometimes. |
| 0:36.4 | I can be such a bitch sometimes. |
| 0:38.4 | She works out every morning. |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:40.7 | It's impressive. |
| 0:42.2 | You'd be a great matchmaker. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah, whoever wants to date my yet. |
| 0:47.0 | Send us an email. |
| 0:48.8 | Ew, I'm becoming such a pathetic loser. |
| 0:51.2 | She's just like writing about my dating woes and my substack. Now my official persona is just sad loser. It's just like writing about my dating woes and my substack. And now my official persona is just sad loser. Oh my God. And that's not true. Also like, it's resonating. I guess all women are sad losers is what is what I've realized about this. You're writing here first. I'm just kidding. We've all been hard done by. Aw. I'm kidding. I'm kidding again. She's so cool. She's awesome. |
| 1:16.4 | I don't care about anything. I'm just viving all the time. Who are you? I'm Hannah. She's single and doesn't |
| 1:22.8 | care. Yeah, okay, there. That's basically, I'm not even a YouTuber, I'm just single, and I don't care. |
| 1:29.0 | And this is Rehash, a podcast about the social media phenomenons that strike a nerve in our culture, only to be quickly forgotten. |
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