Wherever you come down on Bianca Del Rio’s signature comedy styling of offending at all costs, her response to the recent Montreal Pride rape joke backlash misses the mark.
To recap, the Drag Race season 6 winner was performing a set when she launched into a bit about the often-emotional season 10 cast. In particular, she took issue with the way Blair St. Clair disclosed her experience having been raped at a college party.
“Seriously, I don’t even want to talk about season 10 because every fucking bitch cried every f*cking episode. Did you see that? Every episode!
It’s her fat ass going ‘Ugh I’m fat’ and then the other one… and then you’ve got that other bitch: ‘I was raped!’
No – f*ck you. You notice she wasn’t raped until she was in the bottom two? Think about that, bitch – that’s f*cking strategy.
Oh f*ck you rape is funny if you haven’t had it.
And if you weren’t raped, remember this – you’re ugly.”
The comments led Montreal Pride to issue a statement “severely disassociating” itself with the performer and many people, among them Blair St. Clair, felt the jokes were way over the line.
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Bianca took to Instagram to share a portion of a response she gave to Hornet:
So in the course of making a joke about the strategies queens may or may not have employed to get ahead on Drag Race — and according to her, that’s the only point she was trying to make — Bianca ended up here:
“Oh f*ck you rape is funny if you haven’t had it.
And if you weren’t raped, remember this – you’re ugly.”
Perhaps it’s time for comics, even insult comics like Bianca, to retire jokes like these ones for good.
Blair put it well in her own response:
In the U.S. someone is sexually assaulted every 2 minutes, but people persist in thinking that making rape or sexual assault jokes is “comedy.” It is not. Rape jokes contribute to rape culture.
— Blair St. Clair (@BlairStClair) August 18, 2018
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misterjack
I like Bianca. She does push the envelope, but usually manages to pull it off. Did she go a little too far, this time? Maybe. I would imagine, when you’re on stage, under pressure to entertain a crowd, you might upon occasion make a mistake. Nerves and adrenaline. No need to RuPaulogise. I’ll still see her if she comes to Minneapolis, again.
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Xzamilloh
The show is heavily edited and produced, so it’s likely that Blair St. Clair had already disclosed her rape and was “encouraged” by the producers to bring it up in that moment, because a lot of these so-called moments seem really forced to get at the heartstrings… especially when you remember the song she lip synced to against The Vixen.
And while I didn’t find Bianca’s joke funny, I’m of the mindset that if you’re not sorry, don’t apologize, because it wouldn’t be sincere.
DHT
There is no defense for rape jokes, like the article states rape jokes just support rape culture.
SnakeyJ
There is NO SUCH THING as a “rape culture” in most western countries. Rape is punished harshly. A “rape culture” is ENCOURAGING people to rape. we not only discourage it… but people convicted are put behind bars for a very very very long time. And a joke is just that, a joke. get over it.
Jamie
I guess knock-knock jokes support Mormon culture.
DCguy
@SnakeyJ
What a shock, an account that regularly defends Trump and anti-LGBT bigots pretends Rape isn’t a problem here. You may want to explain why Harvey Weinstein, Bill O’Reilly, and Roger Ailes got away with it for decades
Greg
Harvey Weinstein, Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes got away with assaulting people because the victims didn’t say anything. They didn’t want to lose their jobs or they wanted that part in that movie.
Frankie James
Just apologize honey… haven’t you seen how quickly #45 sinks each time he shoves a foot in his mouth and can’t admit he was wrong.
Just apologize – it was a gross nasty joke.
GetOffMyInternets
Q Digital the parent company of both Queerty and LGBTQ Nation still to this day proudly lists The Weinstein Company as “These brands are already connecting through us” on their website. But rape jokes supposedly offend them. Seriously the hypocrisy about this page is a joke.
GentlemanCaller
Oh honey, someone is offended by something every two minutes these days. We live in such mortally horrified, pearl-clutching days that it’s really quite difficult sometimes to know which eggshell we’re tiptoeing on. Rape is awful, but the reason we have humor is so that we can deal with awful things. That’s why jokes about trump are so helpful, and why jokes about rape, loneliness, STDs, and 9/11 can be cathartic. If we never release our pain through humor, we just hold on to it and it festers into the self-pitying, self-important, smugly judgmental mess we find ourselves in now.
Jamie
VERY well said!!
Evji108
Thank you for your comments. Comedians allow us to laugh about the worst things that can happen to us, being able to laugh in and about the darkest situations is a blessing and I thank them every day for being fearless – And for Not Apologizing for A Joke. It’s her job to push the envelope to find the humor in the least humorous aspects of life.
khan72
I know Bianca, ever since she won she has been slowly loosing her mind. She is convinced that literally anything and everything she says is hilarious. She will deeply hurt someone, personally, if it gets her a laugh. She is so desperate for a laugh she even contradict herself.” Bringing it up right before ‘lip sync for your life’ was strategic – IN MY OPINION . Maybe I’m just nostalgic for the old days when drag was fun, NOT PERSONAL” Bianca, YOU PERSONALLY are attacking someone PERSONALLY. That is what made your show NOT FUN
Jamie
Haaaahahahaha!!!! You KNOW Bianca?? You obviously don’t know her at all because your comments are completely ridiculous. No one knows her better than I do, and she’s NOTHING like what you just described. Also, it wasn’t a personal attack. She mentioned 2 other queens’ comments from the show in that same bit…and didn’t mention any of them by name because the focus was more on the actions of telling sad stories on the show and the timing of the stories, as opposed to the individuals themselves. And the majority of the crowd got that and enjoyed the show immensely. Lastly, if you know her so well, you know that she always says anyone can make any joke about her because it’s not personal when it comes to comedy. In fact, she always says she’s the biggest joke of all and makes self-deprecating jokes in every show.
SnakeyJ
Back in my day, after a bad sexual experience we told our best friend and went on with our lives. Now… it’s rape.
JessPH
Bianca is always a riot. I luv her
James
YOU CAN HAVE HER, SHE’S SO BORING.
Ashke113
Boohoo Blair St Clair got butt hurt because Bianca took the wind out of her sails and the spotlight away from her “rape story”. Poor thing now she has to deal with being just another plain drag queen who will fade into the shadows like the rest of the them. Bianca made a joke about someone cry another fake tear, Bianca made another joke about something that happened to someone have another drink, Bianca doesn’t care get over it.
QueerTruth
Here’s the thing, you can debate free speech all day. Sure, go for it. But that’s not what your posts are about. No, not at all.
Your only point is to continue to mock a 22 year old who was raped…
That is cruel, pointless and simply pathetic. Period.
James
ashke113, WHAT A SHALLOW NOTHING YOU ARE. YOU ARE ABOUT AS INTELLIGENT AS A FOOTBALL.
James
ASHKE113 AND WHOT THE FUK GIVES A CRAP ABOUT BIANCA DEL RIO, OBVIOUSLY SHALLOW PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
Evji108
Russian troll bots like fake profile James, that TYPE IN ALL CAPS are the morons who couldn’t pass their Russian Troll Factory Training Course. You better hope they don’t see your post, you will get sent to the gulag in Siberia.
Ashke113
Queer Truth – I was raped twice but unlike Blair I don’t use it as an excuse to get things or get peoples sympathy. I don’t let it run my life or define who I am, it happened I was devastated I learned how to deal with it and I put it behind me end of story. All Blair is doing now is looking for sympathy off what Bianca said and idiots like you are falling for it.
Polaro
Jesus is lord, people need to chill out and find something better to do with their time than complain about drag queen jokes. Clue, drag queens have always been and always will be irreverent, raunchy and debauched. Who takes drag queens seriously? People with too much time on their hands.
kiriakis1
“Who takes drag queens seriously?” Other drag queens.
James
POLARO, GET A LIFE YOU SHALLOW BORING NOBODY.
James
ASHKE113 AND WHOT THE FUK GIVES A CRAP ABOUT BIANCA DEL RIO, OBVIOUSLY SHALLOW PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
QueerTruth
The issue isn’t about free speech, it’s about humility. Comedians will always “go too far” for some people. That’s fine.
In this case, it’s personal. She went after a particular person, whom she knows, and mocked her for crying while telling a story about being raped. It wasn’t funny. The crowd was clear that they were not amused. Fine. No biggie.
So apologize. How hard is that? Instead she defends it by saying that the whole season 10 cried a lot. Yawn… as if. Has anyone watched season 6, her season lately… Almost everyone cried there too and who cares? It’s a TV show. So… what’s your point, Bianca?
There is none.
Apologize.
James
IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN RAPED YOU’RE UGLY.
WHAT A LOSER. SHE’S NOT FUNNY, SHE’S PATHETIC.
Evji108
Stop SHOUTING u moron.
James
OBVIOUSLY THE ONLY PEOPLE SUPPORTING THIS SICK JOKE DRAG WEARING LOSER BIANCA WHATEVER BARBIE DOLL ARE TROLLS.
Creamsicle
A shock/insult comic made an off color joke and refuses to apologize for it? What a surprise! Seriously though, this is what comics do. She’s funny, if a little one-note, but she has her niche and she fills it well. I didn’t watcher her season of drag race, so I can’t really say whether or not I’ma fan, but I did see her and Courtney Act perform at UCSB I couple years back, and they were pretty entertaining.
They were also over an hour late, but I get it. I’m not about to tell a drag queen to hurry the fuck up. I like my genitals right where they are, thank you very much.