Now the United Nations is gaslighting lesbians. This week, the UN’s gender-equality organisation, UN Women, seized upon International Lesbian Day to admonish us. ‘Remember’, it declared in a post on X (formerly Twitter), ‘trans lesbians are lesbians, too’.
The term ‘gaslighting’ can feel overused these days. It comes from one of Ingrid Bergman’s most iconic roles in the 1944 film, Gaslight. Bergman plays Paula, the beautiful, distraught wife of Gregory, who sets out to drive her mad. He fiddles with the lights, turning them brighter and dimmer while denying he has done so – the visual metaphor for his psychological torture of her.
The film gave us the word ‘gaslighting’, where misrepresentations of reality are repeated in an attempt to make people accept lies and think they are going mad. This insidious tactic has been employed particularly aggressively by gender ideologues, who repeat the mantra that ‘transwomen are women’.
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