Yes and no. Some things are, indeed, gaslighting for example, while others are, indeed just disagreements. Saying that all things “disagreement” are gaslighting is just as lacking in nuance as saying “people are calling every disagreement ‘gaslighting’ nowadays.”
And I think that’s the main bit, the lack of nuance. It has been slowly disappearing from both everyday discourse, as well as high-level communication, reducing the greyscale to a black-white binary. There is a tendency to buzzword-ify pretty much everything, so that it’s easier to fit in just the two boxes.
To be clear, I’m not defending people who, indeed, call everything “trauma,” or “gaslighting,” or whatever else, but I most certainly don’t agree with people who say “everyone’s exaggerating,” either.
Yes and no. Some things are, indeed, gaslighting for example, while others are, indeed just disagreements. Saying that all things “disagreement” are gaslighting is just as lacking in nuance as saying “people are calling every disagreement ‘gaslighting’ nowadays.”
And I think that’s the main bit, the lack of nuance. It has been slowly disappearing from both everyday discourse, as well as high-level communication, reducing the greyscale to a black-white binary. There is a tendency to buzzword-ify pretty much everything, so that it’s easier to fit in just the two boxes.
To be clear, I’m not defending people who, indeed, call everything “trauma,” or “gaslighting,” or whatever else, but I most certainly don’t agree with people who say “everyone’s exaggerating,” either.