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Review: On VOD this week: Promising Young Woman is a cathartic rape-revenge fantasy built backward


There is a scene in
Promising Young Woman where Cassandra (Carey Mulligan), a thirty-something barista out to set sexual predators straight, is in conversation with one of her “victims.” He expresses that being accused of sexual misconduct is a man’s “worst nightmare.” To which she responds: “Do you know what a woman’s is?”
The exchange is a riff on a famous Margaret Atwood anecdote that any young woman who has spent enough time on feminist blogs (what I assume is this film’s target demographic) is instantly familiar with. Atwood asks a male friend why men feel threatened by women. “They’re afraid women will laugh at them,” he responds. But when Atwood asks women why they feel threatened by men, their answer is far more pointed: “We’re afraid of being killed.” ....

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