2 definitions by cudgel_bear
1. What someone will do when they want a sexual double-standard, to take advantage of their partner.
2. What men will do to keep the peace or gain status; What women will do to attack or gain status.
3. Any and/or every combination and permutation of the above.
2. What men will do to keep the peace or gain status; What women will do to attack or gain status.
3. Any and/or every combination and permutation of the above.
No, I don't want to be involved with other people, honey. I ... just ... want ... to ... lie ... with ... you and your sexy body.
When I said you lied, I didn't mean you were just thinking of yourself!
S/He lied, but with such devilish skill that their was no need to open his/her mouth to pull it off.
When I said you lied, I didn't mean you were just thinking of yourself!
S/He lied, but with such devilish skill that their was no need to open his/her mouth to pull it off.
by cudgel_bear March 9, 2010
1. to tell a bald faced lie to someone and then brazenly deny that this was ever done
2. to give a person the frustration of moving their keys, purse, wallet, condoms, or other object and to then claim they were never moved or the person had done it themself
3. a frequent tool in the slickery dick or slickery clit's toolkit for infidelity
4. an insidious tool in the hands of unscrupulous mind-screwers and sociopaths
5. to tell a lie (consciously or unconsciously) without regard for whether or not you undermine another person's sanity/ perception of reality
It comes from the 1938 movie Gas Light.
2. to give a person the frustration of moving their keys, purse, wallet, condoms, or other object and to then claim they were never moved or the person had done it themself
3. a frequent tool in the slickery dick or slickery clit's toolkit for infidelity
4. an insidious tool in the hands of unscrupulous mind-screwers and sociopaths
5. to tell a lie (consciously or unconsciously) without regard for whether or not you undermine another person's sanity/ perception of reality
It comes from the 1938 movie Gas Light.
Tommy Lee was gas lighting Elizabeth Taylor until she lost her mind. Mr. Lee should be shot.
Courtney Love leveled Kurt Cobain, not just with the multiple affairs, but by gently undermining his self respect with a little known procedure called gas lighting. He didn't even know he was a pound overweight until he was 20 pounds overweight. Poor guy.
It is a sign of the slow progress of culture that something as insidious as gas lighting can fail to be widely known, except in a slang dictionary definition, nearly three quarters of a century later than the movie by the same name.
Courtney Love leveled Kurt Cobain, not just with the multiple affairs, but by gently undermining his self respect with a little known procedure called gas lighting. He didn't even know he was a pound overweight until he was 20 pounds overweight. Poor guy.
It is a sign of the slow progress of culture that something as insidious as gas lighting can fail to be widely known, except in a slang dictionary definition, nearly three quarters of a century later than the movie by the same name.
by cudgel_bear March 9, 2010