DISCOURSE, SEXISM AND GENDER VIOLENCE IN RED NOTE: JUANA BARRAZA CASE

Abstract

In this paper, we start by considering that the red note discourse reiterates gender stereotypes and prejudices that contribute to and legitimize gender violence by addressing red-note events where the discursive treatment changes drastically according to the gender of the protagonist, such is the case of Juana Barraza, nicknamed by the media Mataviejitas. An assertion that is made based on the review of two newspapers in Mexico: La Prensa and Metro where the exaltation of masculine intelligence, the denigration of the homosexual population and the reiteration of female roles through the use of language are observed. sanction and criticism of their transgression. These arguments are based on the gender theory presented by Joan Scott and Marcela Lagarde and the categories of discourse analysis proposed by Charles Morris and Teun Van Dijk. As a result of the analysis, naturalization of violence was detected in the discourse of journalists and authorities, the implementation of greater penalties for women who commit a crime, especially if they transgress the "natural" parameters of gender, the invisibility of situations context of delinquent women who, in most cases, have systematically suffered violence of various types that results in aggression, the invisibility of groups that have been placed, by a patriarchal and neoliberal system, in situations of vulnerability, such the case of older women whose homicides continue to occur in Mexico City