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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” star Bianca Del Rio was criticized over a comedy routine at Montreal Pride on Friday which included several jokes about rape and fellow “Drag Race” contestant Blair St. Clair’s experience with sexual assault.
“Then you’ve got that other bitch, ‘I was raped!'” said Del Rio of St. Clair, suggesting that the claim was intended to boost her sagging position on the show. “You notice she wasn’t raped until she was in the bottom two? Think about that, bitch. That’s strategy. that’s f—ing strategy!”
“Oh f— you, rape is funny if you haven’t had it,” Del Rio said before delivering the kicker.
“If you weren’t raped, remember this, you’re ugly. Oh, we’re supposed to have sympathy? F— you.”
The remarks drew a lot of laughs — but also some boos — and an immediate rebuke from St. Clair.
“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,” she said in a tweet which swiftly went viral. “Rape jokes contribute to rape culture.”