Preconceitos de gênero e assédio moral/sexual clivados pelo discurso humorístico nos enunciados de Silvio Santos

Abstract

This research aims to analyze gender prejudices and moral/sexual harassment cleaved by the humorous discourse in Silvio Santos' statements concerning the way he approaches employees and guests in the genre of textual/discursive auditorium program, specifically the Silvio Santos Program. It is a regular in the statements of Silvio discursive positioning debauched, proposed by a controversial spectacle, which can be interpreted as a joke or as prejudice, disrespect, and harassment. We question how the effects of this humor manifest work, sometimes as debauchery, sometimes as an offense, depending on the assumed subject position and the social place occupied. For the development of this research, we mobilized an investigative corpus that covers two television attractions of the Silvio Santos Program: Exame de Calouros and Jogo dos Pontinhos. We have as the main base of our theoretical-methodological contribution the Discourse Analysis of French line when selecting authors such as Foucault (1996; 2008) and Pêcheux (1988; 1997), but also Bakhtin / Volochínov (1987; 2006) and Orlandi (2007; 2008), among others. We developed analyzes about the carnivalization that occurs in some moments of interaction between Silvio and the employees and between Silvio and the guests; studies about the relations of power that there is in these interactions; investigations taking into account the processes of subjectification and the effects of meaning that are produced from the statements. We expect to understand how these sayings are legitimized (or refuted) from the operationalization of the discursive order that cleaves the various processes of subjectification. We start from the hypothesis that the words of Silvio Santos have regularities regarding the shameless, disrespectful and debauched way in which he treats employees and participants when considering the circulation of contemporary discursive policies for affirming the excluded, being frequent, then, the emergence of sexist, homophobic, fatphobic discourses, harassment markers, etc., always through laughter, with the effect of attenuating and even canceling the pejorative circulation of prejudices. As a result, given the humorous context of the program, Silvio is anchored in this to continue producing these statements; of the discourses of empowerment and the fight against any form of prejudice, the words of Silvio Santos have been viewed in another way: they are offensive statements that are disguised through playful discourse, so that, through laughter, the escape from social segregation is justified. We conclude that the materiality of these statements is crossed, in some subjectivation processes, by the age of Silvio Santos, characterizing him as a senile old man, who uses laughter and humorous discourse as a subterfuge for the circulation of prejudices and moral/sexual harassment, as if he no longer had rational control over his sayings; but prejudice and harassment are also modalized because Silvio Santos considers the humor of his auditorium program to be legitimate, disregarding the criticism and ridicule of employees and guests belonging to socially excluded social strata, such as women, gays and fat people.