Gaslighting

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ellie and David discuss the term "gaslighting" in episode 21. They begin by jumping into the origin of the term in the 1940s and its entrance into mainstream discourse today. Then the two go onto explore how gaslighting works, and whether it needs to be deliberate (spoiler alert: no!). Finally, David and Ellie think about structural and cultural gaslighting in systems of oppression. Also discussed in the episode: The Chicks, epistemic injustice, the medical establishment, and...is Socrates a gaslighter? Gaslit? Neither?

Works discussed:
George Cukor, Gaslight (film)
Veronica Ivy, “Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice”
Cynthia A. Stark, “Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Psychological Oppression”
Nora Berenstain, “White Feminist Gaslighting”
Elena Ruíz, “Cultural Gaslighting”
Shelley Tremain, “Structural Gaslighting, Epistemic Injustice, and Ableism in Philosophy”
Lauren Duca, “Donald Trump is Gaslighting America”
Karen C. Adkins, “Gaslighting by Crowd”
Elinor Greenberg, “Are You Being "Gaslighted" By the Narcissist in Your Life?”
Diane E. Hoffmann and Anita J. Tarzian, “The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain"
Ashley Fetters, “The Doctor Doesn’t Listen to Her. But the Media Is Starting To”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:09.2	And I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:11.0	Welcome to Overthink.
0:12.6	The podcast, we're two friends who are also professors, put philosophy and dialogue with the everyday.
0:18.3	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:30.9	Before we get in today's episode, we just want to say that you'll hear us sometimes use
0:34.9	words like crazy or insane.
0:37.0	We hope it's clear from the context that what we're referring to is sometimes use words like crazy or insane. We hope it's clear from
0:37.8	the context that what we're referring to is accusations that people are crazy or insane and not
0:42.9	that we buy into the use of those terms, which are ablest in nature. We also want to provide
0:47.0	a content warning because in today's episode, we discuss sexual violence and birth trauma.
0:52.8	They come up in the second half of the episode.
0:56.5	It seems like everybody these days is talking about gaslighting.
1:00.9	It's one of those rare terms that is hot within academia and outside of it at the same time.
1:06.7	Usually it's one or the other, right?
1:08.5	Either academics are super ahead of popular discourse or super
1:13.0	behind it, but right now, magically, they are in sync. And the synchronization is happening
1:18.6	over gaslighting. I know, it's wild. There's been a spate of academic journal issues and
1:23.6	conferences devoted to the topic. But then you also have like a lot of popular op-eds and Instagram memes about it.
1:30.2	Yeah.
1:30.8	For instance, in 2016, Lauren Duka wrote a piece for Teen Vogue, which by the way has been
1:36.3	killing it recently with their political consciousness approach to reaching out to teens
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