Ashley Grant

Ashley Grant is a graduate student and feminist. She also works as a babysitter, presumably to help pay for graduate school or as a stipend to offset costs of being a student.

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Ashley babysat Bart, Lisa, and Maggie while Homer and Marge attended the Springfield Candy Convention. When Homer drove Ashley home and she got out of the car, he noticed his misplaced Gummi Venus de Milo stuck to the back of her pants and picks it off. Ashley misinterpreted this as sexual harassment, and returned to the Simpson house the next morning with sign-carrying protesters denouncing Homer's behavior. This caused problems for Homer until Groundskeeper Willie showed everyone a video which proved that Homer did not touch Ashley but was only retrieving the Gummi Venus. Shown this proof, Ashley dropped her harassment accusation against Homer, and admitted that although she originally considered Homer to be boorish, she has to believe Lisa's insistence that Homer is a decent man.

Ashley gets along well with the Simpson children. Lisa admires her for her feminist stance. Ashley also demonstrates that she knows how to manipulate men and boys when she uses a violent video game to persuade Bart to do housework and to make him walk into a wall.