Maybe this episode was considered good and smart back in the early nineties, but it didn't age well. It's quite terrible and misogynystic actually, and to my opinion it's the worst episode since the beginning of the show. It was so unpleasant to watch and so frustratingly ridiculous.
They could have made the same point about narrative framing and media generating storms out of butterfly wings flapping using another crime, in which it actually does happen. But as for sexual crimes - and especially sexual harassment - obviously it's the other way round. If it happened - or rather: *when* it happens in real life, the babysitter will probably never tell, knowing nobody will believe her, and if she will choose to tell she'll walk through a disbelieving and slut shaming hell, not to mention that Homer actually *did* sexually assaulted her even though he *didn't mean to and didn't know he was doing it.*
They should've stick to the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory plot, which was hilarious, and I've added one point for that.
They could have made the same point about narrative framing and media generating storms out of butterfly wings flapping using another crime, in which it actually does happen. But as for sexual crimes - and especially sexual harassment - obviously it's the other way round. If it happened - or rather: *when* it happens in real life, the babysitter will probably never tell, knowing nobody will believe her, and if she will choose to tell she'll walk through a disbelieving and slut shaming hell, not to mention that Homer actually *did* sexually assaulted her even though he *didn't mean to and didn't know he was doing it.*
They should've stick to the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory plot, which was hilarious, and I've added one point for that.