Pepe didn’t realize he smelled really bad. That was the joke. The cat was into it until she got a whiff. Pepe didn’t know she wasn’t just like him. It is a petty, ignorant, small person who sees rape culture here, and who sees stereotypes as mean and racist. I say if you want to cancel something, cancel spewing idiots like Charles Blow.
What history is missing is Pepe LePew singing “Baby It’s Cold Outside”. Maybe South Park can make an episode around that.
Yes, every episode started with a cat somehow getting white paint in a line on their backs thus making Pepe think they were a fellow skunk.