"The problem is that these kinds of all-male or male-driven stories are
substantially more prevalent than all-female or female-driven stories"

Come on, they already mixed up medieval central european fairy tales collect by the brothers Grimm (Snowwhite etc.), stories by Hans Christian Andersen (Arielle etc.), Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, an ancient chinese poems (Mulan) and Oz.
Using historical charcters is a far better approach then introducing yet…

Obviously it wasn't in 1985. The Simpsons are old, but not so old ;-) This episode aired in 1995.