If I told you that a comedian once suggested killing drag queens “with an axe,” you would be scandalized. With good reason. This would be an absolutely appalling incitement to hatred. A trivialization of violence.
But what if I told you that the opposite happened?
Would you find that funny?
Is everyone laughing?
There was a lot of excitement last Sunday at TLMEP. But there was a moment that intrigued me: when the “alpha male” Julien Bournival challenged the drag queen Mona from Grenoble, reminding her of a bad taste joke that she would have made in the past.
Mona didn’t find it funny. “We’re not going there!” she said, clearly not happy. I didn’t understand at all what it was about.
This story intrigued me. I did my research.
During the podcast Listening No. 435 by Mike Ward, recorded a year ago and available on YouTube, Mona from Grenoble said about the people on Facebook who complain about drag queens: “I hate them. Are 14 with signs with fouls in them. […] The world is a mess in the head, and when speed bumps hit it, the brain hits. They open a Facebook, and give their opinion there as a host of arrears of the Chriss. I would kill them with an ax, host.”
Notice, this is an expression that Mona de Grenoble likes to use. During another episode with Mike Ward, Mona said that if one day she was invited to Sweet and saltyshe was perhaps going to tell the host that she wanted to kill him with an ax.
I’m not saying that Mona de Grenoble doesn’t have the right to make jokes in bad taste. Be trashit’s his trademark! But why doesn’t she own up to her words? Why does she say “We’re not going there!” when we remind her of this joke?
Rape culture?
Present on the same podcast no. 435 of Listening (which was seen by 254,000 people on YouTube), Sébastien Dubé of Denis Drolet (bearded Denis) also made surprising statements.
After saying that he liked to say “I love you” before “penetrating” his partners during sexual intercourse, Sébastien Dubé suggested that it was very funny to give a pill to put his partners to sleep: “You give them pills first. You want to be sure that people are sleeping there. […] It’s a good deal! The world wakes up completely lost, remembers nothing.” Then when he saw the public’s reaction, he said: “Criss there, guys, rape has never killed anyone!”
By the time the podcast was recorded, it was already known that date rape drugs were a scourge.
But with what we now know about the sordid story of Gisèle Pélicot, put to sleep without her knowledge to be raped, this joke makes me uncomfortable.
On the good side
Why do feminists who are so quick to denounce rape culture or male violence have nothing to say when comedians make this kind of joke?
Is it because these comedians are part of “the good gang”?
