Hilarious Onion Parody On Sexual Harassment Disturbingly Realistic

6:00 pm, August 9th | by Amy Tennery

Sometimes art imitates life. And sometimes parody comes freakishly close to resembling reality. The latter is the case in fake news site The Onion’s newest satire on sexual harassment.

“Returning home from work Wednesday evening, area woman Caitlin Levy suddenly realized that, quite unusually, she had not been harassed or propositioned for sex even once the entire day,” the piece explains.

It only gets better from there:

Starting with her morning bus commute—a 25-minute ride during which she is accustomed to being slowly undressed in the minds of at least one or two passengers—Levy carefully revisited those times of the day when, ordinarily, she is subject to catcalls, hollered at, or gaped at with an unblinking, slack-jawed stare.

Even upon further reflection, however, the puzzled woman was unable to recall any incident that left her feeling humiliated, sexually degraded, or physically threatened in any way.

And here we thought it was impossible to stick the landing on a really solid sexual harassment joke — especially one with this level of realism.

[The Onion]

TAGS: sexual harassment