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NYT Columnist Says Cartoon Skunk Character Pepe Le Pew ‘Normalized Rape Culture’
The looney Tunes cartoon character Pepe Le Pew has bacome the cancel mobs latest target, after New York Times columnist Charles Blow argued that the French skunk “normalized rape culture.”
Tweeting a scene from the Warner Bros. classic cartoon series on Saturday, Blow wrote: “Right-wing blogs are mad because I said Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture…..Let’s see, he grabs/kisses a girl/stranger repeatedly, without consent and against her will. She struggles mightily to get away from him, but he won’t release her. He locks a door to prevent her from escaping.“
RT reports: Blow added that Pepe Le Pew “helped teach boys that ‘no’ didn’t really mean no” and that overcoming a woman’s strenuous or even physical resistance was “normal, adorable, funny. They didn’t even give the woman the ability to speak.”
The columnist’s latest anti-Pepe tirade came after conservative commentators, such as Kevin Michael Grace and the Media Research Center, mocked the Times for demonizing Pepe, another cartoon character, following the cancel mob’s assault on Dr. Seuss in recent days. The Media Research Center wrote that Blow was “one-upping the already overdone outrage” over allegedly racist undertones in some Dr. Seuss books.
