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Gay, known for her bt-sellg book “The Bad Femist, ” seemed to claim that the term wasn’t ed the 1950s when the movie was set.

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And for a while Gay, 47, stuck to her pot, even llg “a bad screenplay, perd” another sce-leted tweet.

It wasn’t part of the vernacular then, ” Gay rpond, addg a later post, “The dacy of y’all fg gaslightg to me. Other people on Twter jumped to Gay’s fense, claimg the term wasn’t monly ed the ’50s. Journalist Evie Nagy chimed , sayg wasn’t troduced to vernacular until later and that the Twter stir Gay’s ment ed beme a “gaslightg ceptn.

However, ultimately, Gay chid menters for g an “absurd” firtorm and offered a half-hearted mea culpa. — roxane gay (@rgay) December 23, 2021.

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