Intersectional feminists are gaslighting women
They say all women are threatened by men, while refusing to say what a woman is.
‘Gaslighting’ has been named word of the year by American dictionary-compiler Merriam-Webster. It is defined as ‘the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for one’s own advantage’ and it comes from Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play, Gas Light, in which a man gets his wife to doubt her sanity by, among other things, dimming the lights and then convincing her she’s imagining it. Online searches for ‘gaslighting’ in 2022 are 1,740 per cent up on last year.
The term ‘gaslighting’ has long been championed by feminists to draw attention to the coercive and controlling behaviour often associated with domestic abuse. But in recent years the word has been applied far more liberally. Point out that women are not actually paid less just for being female and some will accuse you of gaslighting women whose ‘lived experience’ tells them otherwise. Say that transwomen are not women and some will accuse you of gaslighting an entire community.
Ironically, having popularised the term ‘gaslighting’, it is now feminists who are getting women to doubt their sanity and question their grasp on reality. I am of course referring to modern feminists or ‘intersectional’ feminists, rather than the second-wave variety. Those kinds of feminists who, not that long ago, donned pink pussy hats to protest against Donald Trump, but then started to worry that the hat itself could be a symbol of white supremacy and transphobia. Or those posh women with huge salaries who declare themselves victims of the gender pay gap. Or the ‘head girl’ or ‘professional’ feminists who know women are more likely to be victims of sexual assault than men, but argue against single-sex prisons, hospital wards, changing rooms and toilets. Or those feminists who will swear blind that the six-foot-something bloke with a beard and penis is a woman. Now, if that is not gaslighting, I don’t know what is.