The 1960s and 1970s were defined by the various civil rights movements occurring simultaneously, notably the second wave of feminism and the sexual revolution (“Feminism and the Sexual Revolution”). Women started resisting the reductive and objectifying patriarchal standards for femininity, which eventually led to the creation of a new genre of film called “rape-revenge” (“Rape and revenge”). This demonstration of the female frustration with the societal standards of dealing with sexual assault has become less popular over time. However, in 2020, a film titled Promising Young Woman was…