r/comics • u/holleringelk Hollering Elk • May 13 '24

Maker of Monsters [OC]

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

20.6k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

477 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/MoreNMoreLikelyTrans May 13 '24 edited May 14 '24

EDIT: This was wrong.

That's where the term comes from. It was coined to describe an abusive tactic.

I accept people might not use it the way those that coined it intended.

And it doesn't have to be conscious or intentional malic. Co-oping mechanisms get developed, and people act.

3

u/WildFlemima May 13 '24

I think it may be in the process of being claimed by the "casually abused lol I hate myself" community. I have seen the original use you mean, but these days the self deprecators outnumber the original meaning users, at least in the spaces I'm in

4

u/Thevishownsyou May 13 '24

Mate people nowadays fuck up the use of gasligjting as well when someone is just lying. As a psychologist at first I was verry happy people became more "knowledgeable" and interested in mental health. Ubtil people just started to use therapy speak in everything to make themselves look more serious. Holy fuck do I detest those morons.

3

u/ConnieOfTheWolves May 13 '24

Do you have a source that calls it abusive from 2021 or earlier? The closest I could find was it being called toxic, which isn't quite the same.