Using self-inflicted injuries, real or fake, to deceive others and manipulate them into doing what you want. Often used to frame a third party, this strategy is particularly effective for, and often used by, women, due to societal prohibitions against hurting women.
Named for the trick sometimes used by a mother gazelle (or other deer) of pretending to be injured in order to lure a predator away [...] [tvtropes.org]