doxa.comunicación | 2, pp. 75-95 | 87

July-December of 2019

Elena Bandrés Goldáraz

ISSN: 1696-019X / e-ISSN: 2386-3978

the self-definition of “lively fucker” not only does not arouse moral censorship but rather generates some admiration in male characters.

The chapter of the sixth season is a projection of the stereotypes referred to but projected from the male point of view. The feeling of inferiority turns from superiority by the character who embodies the sexist and xenophobic attitude by not respecting the authority of a judge who he describes as “little judge” and “puppet of power”, to him saying “women in the kitchen”. The judge has listened to him but she, surprisingly, says nothing. Here “the script of the series” eliminates the double authority of this character, not only as a magistrate but also as a woman. The disrespect from the male character is not taken into account and, of course, is unpunished. Therefore, stereotypes 4 and 5 are emphasized (little self-esteem and submission to the man).

The character who is the president of the neighbouring community’s partner tells his son that “Judith finally has a family, and has fulfilled her dream”, when she neither speaks nor suggests this comment. Another of the sexist stereotypes is the one that is repeated in this chapter when one of the neighbours tells his friends “you give orders, or you are useless”. It represents the will to establish stereotype 5, submission of the women to the men.

They once again consider how the greatest ingredient of success is what you neighbour does, which is sleeping with all the “beautiful” girls in the village. They say, “Amador is a stud. He has all the girls in the village since he became single”. And, this same person reprimands his ex-wife when she goes out with her friends. The advice given among the group of “lions” friends are: “Enrique, women are bad, that’s why I’m single”. They insult women by calling them: foxes. They don’t trust them. And they give themselves advices like this: “If your wife has gone out, you have to go out too”. The father of four recommends that his former wife “does not put so much make up on”, as she is no longer 30, although he says he still think she is “good looking”. However, in other chapters, he does not mind playing a homosexual role, in order to achieve his goals.

At a meeting, all the male neighbours say they want “a free maid.” The women claim that “you can’t trust the guys who, as soon as you neglect them, they go and see somewhere else and the sexist and xenophobic character insults an agent of an animalist NGO by saying “shitty slut, shave your armpits”.

In chapter 7, the only stereotype which is reproduced explicitly is the 4 (little self-esteem). I can be noticed in the character who embodies the first woman who told her son about her second partner that “Judith finally has a family and has fulfilled his dream”, as we have referred to. This first wife continues to live in the ex’s house and accuses her ex-husband to want to flirt with thirty-year-olds, as condemns the distorted and false image he has of himself. While what she says is true, the objectified image and lack of authority with which this female character is presented weakens her speech. The woman in general, however, continues to be degraded in this chapter through the insults to describe various female characters by the sexist and xenophobic character par excellence, “the wholesaler who does not clean fish”. He calls her a crazy dyke because she changes her sexual orientation and then he repeats the usual insult of how he defines the psychologist who lives in this peculiar community of neighbours with the term red-haired. An insult which will also be repeated by the man who will stop being the psychologist’s husband, our starting point of the analysis