READ: Clinton daughter calls Duterte ‘murderous thug,’ slams rape jokeThe “rape joke” provoked anger and accusations of sexism against the President on social media. Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former US President Bill Clinton and defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, said on Twitter: “Not funny. Ever,” in reaction to a tweet describing what Mr. Duterte had said. Mr. Duterte “is decisively acting, speaking with heightened bravado, that law and order would be brought back in these areas of rebellion in the soonest time possible and that normalcy would likewise be restored with minimal loss of lives,” he said. This was not the first time Mr. Duterte dropped a “rape joke.”On the campaign stump in April last year, he spoke of the rape of an Australian missionary during a prison riot when he was mayor of Davao City in 1989.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 27, 2017 09:56 UTC