Quando a piada é um crime: a banalização da violência contra a mulher

Abstract

In the present work, we propose to carry out a possible analysis of the enunciative project of comments on the UOL page. The corpus that serves as the object of analysis for the research was collected on the Facebook platform and consists of comments made by profiles of men and women about a comparison between Neymar Jr – soccer player- involved in a scandal with the model Najila Trindade in 2019 and the goalkeeper Bruno who was responsible for the cruel death of Eliza Samudio in 2010. The case of the goalkeeper Bruno is resumed and serves as a humorous comparison of both footballers, using expressions such as ‘Nutella’ (Neymar) x ‘Raiz’ (Bruno). We were interested, therefore, in thinking about how this humorous pretense in the discourse may, in fact, be serving to maintain sexist and misogynistic assumptions, and also, how much a humorous proposal about feminicide may be, instead of making a joke, collaborating with the perpetuation of violence against women. To carry out this work we search for support in the theoretical and methodological assumptions developed by the Bakhtin Circle and its scholars. Thus, our analysis was based on a parameter suggested by Sobral (2009) in dialogue with Brait that consists in a description, analysis and interpretation of the object of study. We understand that the justification of making humor based on violence against women can vulgarize and naturalize the reproduction of this violence because, under the proposal of humorous discourse the violence works as if it were a joke, and is legitimized by socio and historical factors of a society which still is patriarchal, marking a banalization that favors the propagation of sexist, misogynistic and criminal attitudes.