I feel stoopId asking but...

Not sure how its relevant to Who, but this.

Then I agree. He's always saying things to belittle and demean her.

I have no idea what they mean in terms of the doctor & bill

But my understanding is old gas lighting and poor ventilation, people would often suffer effects from the toxic fumes emitted, seeing things, drowsiness, drunken like feelings, etc, this is often why the golden age for ghost stories is the Victorian period, people heard and saw things more than any other period.

Gaslighting someone, means you are fooling someone into believing something that you know to be false.

There is an old play about a man diving his wife mad with gaslights.

I also that's where the term gas (I.e. Jumping jack flash it's a gas gas gas from the old Rolling Stones song) having a laugh is from, gaslight parties where high class ladies would delibatatly get high on the fumes to give drunken like states.

Now I have no idea if any of this is correct but I was taught it 35 years ago by our history teacher, (I just looked it up in my old exercise book.....and there it is with a lovely picture I drew of a ghost I was aged 11)
Hope it is of some help.....it might just be that "mad Jackson" taught me something useful....but then he also taught us that Eve was Adams second wife, king Harold was shot in the ear & one of the kings was killed buy having a red hot poker shoved up his bum.........so I will leave it up to you to judge

No its not applicable,  its possibly the most equal Doctor/Companion relationship in the Moffatt era. No Gaslighting of any kind.

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mark687

Speaking as someone who has been gaslighted (a deeply unpleasant and traumatic experience), I can safely say that the relationship between the Doctor and Bill is far and away from that. It's probably one of the healthiest Doctor/companion relationships of the Moffat era because they're so transparent with one another. They haven't been hiding anything from one another out of mistrust and the Doctor sure as hell hasn't been making her doubt her own sanity. There's a very wide gap between belittling someone and actively trying to destroy their own sense of who they are or where they are.

I can. The Ninth Doctor's attitude to the Geth possessing corpses "It's like recycling," the Sixth Doctor's "I am in your terms an alien," or the various times that the Third Doctor has said -- "Oh, Jo..." in frustration. The Doctor is not human and even if he were, the sheer scope of differing moralities even on our own planet means that even people who exist in the same city are going to have different ideologies. That doesn't make them bad people.

If you want a good example of gaslighting, The Trial of a Time Lord has it in spades, particularly in the Mindwarp segment. The Sixth Doctor is repeatedly gaslit by the Valeyard, preying on his uncertain sense of what's real and what isn't.

Gaslight, you mean? It has an amazing film adaptation starring Ingrid Bergman, she does very well in it.

No, not even remotely. I don't think that word means what the podcaster wants it to mean. What it sounds like is they're badmouthing an incarnation for something they're not actually doing. Either that or conflating one word with another by mistake. No televised Doctor has actually gaslit a companion and it's an assertion that's as concrete as wet paper on a pond.

I'd go so far as to say the relationship between the Doctor and Bill is one of the healthiest between any Doctor and companion in the New Series. There's no secrets, they have a healthy respect for each other and trust in each other. It probably helps they spend time together outside of the TARDIS in what is a normal setting for them and us, rather than racketing around the cosmos all the time. The Doctor is far more in tune to Bill's emotional state than he appears to be (giving her the photos of her mother).

Allegedly!