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.

History
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 picked 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 she had been wrong about him. She said that although she originally considered Homer to be boorish, she had to believe Lisa's insistence that Homer was a decent man.

Ashley got along well with the Simpson children. Lisa admired her for her feminist stance. Ashley also demonstrated that she knew how to manipulate men and boys when she used a violent video game to persuade Bart to do housework and to make him walk into a wall.

Ashley was seen working at Dingo Junction.

She was seen at Krusty's retirement special.

She attended Lisa's town hall meeting about the pollution in Lake Springfield.