The misuse of the word “gaslighting”

Holy shit it actually makes me so annoyed. How hard is it to look up what a word means before using it? Gaslighting is intense psychological manipulation. People nowadays just use it to refer to any disagreement or behavior they don’t like.

Perhaps people need to be watching the 1944 movie “Gaslight” before using this word since that’s where it comes from. Gaslighting is an attempt at making someone question their own sanity by convincing them that their reality is untrue; that their memory is faulty; that they are imagining things.

It is not a blanket term for bad behavior nor is it a blanket term for all psychological abuse tactics.