In my experience, the relative meaning, popularity, and aptness of words like "toxic" are generational and geographic. When I hang out with people 10 years you

In my experience, the relative meaning, popularity, and aptness of words like "toxic" are generational and geographic. When I hang out with people 10 years younger than me, "toxic" means things as mild as "buzzkill" or "wet blanket" and "gaslighting" is whenever someone says something you doubt. Those word carried very weighty and serious connotations when they started becoming commonplace vocabulary years and years ago. These days they're meaningless, and we just have to adapt that new reality.