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The Unbearable Straightness of Intuitive Eating
Published in Phillip Joy, Megan Aston, Queering Nutrition and Dietetics, 2023
As queer and trans people, the dominant message we receive from society is that our bodies and our desires are wrong, obscene, laughable, dangerous. It is a particularly insidious form of gaslighting to be told that the solution to your troubled eating lies in simply trusting your body, when that same body, and representations of bodies like yours, has been consistently distrusted and denigrated, ignored and excluded, humiliated and hurt.
Prologue: Challenges and Rewards of Leadership
Published in Danielle Laraque-Arena, Lauren J. Germain, Virginia Young, Rivers Laraque-Ho, Leadership at the Intersection of Gender and Race in Healthcare and Science, 2022
A number of the chapters will help debunk myths. For example, the concept of the imposter syndrome might reasonably be renamed the “outsider syndrome” – the feeling that many in the so-called less dominant “caste” (Wilkerson, 2020) have felt when ideas are ignored and perspectives and contributions questioned, minimized, even villainized. This syndrome often results from self-imposed doubt, perhaps due to a lack of recognition of how certain skill sets are translatable to different situations and adaptive to new opportunities (Imposter Syndrome, 2021). A related concept of “gaslighting” defined as a type of emotional abuse involves manipulation by forcing an individual to question their thoughts, memories, and the events occurring around them (Gaslighting, 2021). While self-exploration and critical assessment of our talents and challenges are important, psychological manipulation for control of another person is evident in both concepts and should be recognized for what it is and not accepted.
Rethinking what we value
Published in J. Michael Ryan, COVID-19, 2020
It is profoundly revealing to see that, for years, many of the same higher education institutions that have been pushing the hardest for more students to go online to save or make money now want to insist on face-to-face education in the midst of a health and humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. In and of itself, this rich irony should cause us to question motives. It is nothing short of institutional gaslighting.
#Supercorp kissed…or did they?: lesbian fandom and queerbaiting
Published in Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2023
In The Sociology of Gaslighting, author Paige L. Sweet defines ‘gaslighting’ as a manipulative psychological tactic ‘rooted in social inequalities, including gender, and executed in power-laden intimate relationships’. Specifically, gaslighters exploit social assumptions that reinforce their perspective and manipulation, which results in the victim questioning their perceptions and reality (Sweet, 2019). When a showrunner ‘gaslights’ fans, they are reminding viewers that they have power over the canonical narrative. Often showrunners will embrace fan theories as a means of furthering show-related conversation. In many instances, like PBS’ Sherlock, fan ideas gain traction, ultimately garnering more press than the main narrative. As was the case for Sherlock, successful fandoms can cause friction or resentment on the showrunners’ part, especially if their narrative takes a backseat to a fan-created version. Sherlock’s showrunner, Steven Moffitt, is one example. As head writer of Sherlock, he embraced Sherlock/Watson shipping when it benefited ratings. However, once the ship became popular, he insulted the fans and said they were incorrectly reading the characters (Nielson, 2019, p. 89). In Queerbaiting and Fandom, author Joseph Brennan observes that
Gaslighting in the context of clinical interactions with parents of transgender children
Published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 2018
Damien W. Riggs, Clare Bartholomaeus
Gaslighting is about subtly conveying to a person that their own judgment is not to be trusted and that they are not competent, thus undermining their confidence in being able to trust their own views and experiences. This can have the effect of convincing someone that they are responsible for negative events in their lives, including poor mental health. Abramson (2014) further writes that the “gaslighter” is likely to benefit in some way from their behaviours, although may have multiple motivations for doing this. Importantly, the “gaslighter” may not act consciously, and often may not recognise their own motives for their behaviour. Gaslighting is likely to take place over time, involving multiple occurrences, and may be done by more than one person (Abramson, 2014).