Still, these examples pale in comparison to a film that is today almost exclusively remembered for its central conceit: gaslighting. To be fair, the concept of gaslighting — psychological manipulation designed to make the victim question their own sanity — only became widely known in the last decade or so. The valve releasing the term into the cultural ether seemed to abruptly open in 2013 , and by 2022 it was Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year . Gaslighting — now Taylor Swift ’s go-to term to denigrate male entitlement and Natalie Maines ’s (of The Chicks) truculent lyric to excoriate...