Feminists Gravely Concerned Animated Character Homer Simpson Was ‘Raped’ In His Dream

While women in Saudi Arabia are petitioning to end male guardianship, Western third-wave feminists have turned their gaze to the real problem: The dreamed “rape” of an animated character in a comedic sitcom during an episode in 2015.

No, really.

America’s favorite feminist rag you swore was satire, Everyday Feminism, is deeply “disturbed” that animated Homer Simpson of The Simpsons dreamed he was raped during the 2015 season premier, and then “stayed friends” with his dreamed alleged “rapist.”

Feminist blogger Greta Christina explains: “In ‘Every Man’s Dream,’ the 2015 season premiere where Marge and Homer consider divorce, Homer takes up with a young pharmacist named Candace. She doses his drink with roofies. They wake up in bed together. It’s clear that she raped him. Then they start dating,” she writes.

To Christina’s horror, The Simpsons Wikia recalls the encounter a bit differently:

“No, it’s not called rape,” she writes. “The Simpsons Wikia describes it thusly: ‘Candace takes Homer on a date and dopes him, which leads Homer to make the one drunken mistake he never made: sleep with someone other than Marge.’”

The feminists rebuts the description, maintaining that the animated character was roofied, therefore the insinuated sex between the drawings was nonconsensual; leaving out the whole it-was-a-comedic-cartoon’s-dream bit: “But people don’t make mistakes when they’ve been drugged into unconsciousness,” says the feminist. “Drugging people to have sex with their non-consenting bodies is rape.”

“It’s true that at the end of the episode, it’s revealed that this was all a dream,” she does eventually concede, before continuing her crusade against the cartoon: “So what? When the story is unfolding, we don’t know that. And the rape isn’t presented as a horror, or even as rape. It’s a joke. What woman would want to have sex with Homer so badly that she’d drug him? Har de har har.”

Christina concludes that the fictional encounter inside a fictional animated cartoon episode is “especially disturbing.”

“This is especially disturbing when you look at how male rape victims are dismissed; it’s assumed that all men want all the sex all the time, so men being raped is seen as inherently absurd,” she writes.

Thank goodness feminists are tackling real issues, leaving all the silly honor killings and sex slavery issues for…the patriarchy to handle?

Watch the scene, below: