{"id":5343,"date":"2023-04-27T20:04:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/2023\/04\/27\/machos-alfa-marjolaine-molle\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T05:27:07","slug":"alpha-males-marjolaine-molle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/en\/2023\/04\/27\/alpha-males-marjolaine-molle\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Males \u2013 Marjolaine Moll\u00e9<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The series Alpha Males<\/em>[1]<\/a> humorously questions the notion of masculine toxicity and gender equality in contemporary discourse. \u201cAlpha male\u201d means \u201cmacho alpha\u201d in Spanish, in reference to ethological studies. It refers to the dominant male and to machoism, a term which denotes the phallocratic supremacy of the male. It ridicules patriarchy insofar as it is \u201cwhat remains of the father when he no longer embodies any symbolic dimension but rather embodies a power which he misuses\u201d[2]<\/a>. It also ridicules the current discourse about gender issues.<\/p>\n

The series thematises love setbacks of four friends and their partners. The men pursue an \u201cinternship on deconstructing masculine toxicity\u201d, which is considered to be misogynous and homophobic, in order to reach a \u201cmore healthy virility\u201d. Man\u2019s future is to be deconstructed[3]<\/a>. Pedro, a man who excels at everything, finds himself unemployed, replaced by a woman, in an enterprise where feminism washing<\/em>[4]<\/a> is practiced. At the same time, his partner, Daniela, has a breakthrough on Instagram<\/em> as an influencer. This is a reversal of the situation of what has been until then ordering their relationship. While Ra\u00f9l, taken by the facelift of his love life, gets ready to propose to his partner, the latter proposes an open relationship. Luis, a local policeman and father of two children, grapples with the desire of his spouse and the absence of their sex life. As for Santi, who has just come out of a painful divorce, he has a series of dates, which are stage-managed by his 15-year old daughter Alex. She puts his details to Tinder<\/em> to get him back into the game of romantic encounters. Adherent to his daughter\u2019s woke<\/em> discourse, he picks up in his friends\u2019words any macho, sexist or homophobic insults, and even fat shaming.<\/p>\n

Alpha Males<\/em> humorously exposes patriarchy and its decline: \u201cAll of a sudden, everything is patriarchal; we are like a virus. You declared war on the Y chromosome!\u201d The loss of traditional reference points leaves the four men wrestling to reinvent their ideals of masculinity. The series shines a light on how the unsteadiness of semblants<\/em> lays bare the absence of the sexual relationship. For when the phallic semblant<\/em>, signifier of lack, no longer operates in the connection between men and women, when traditional reference points evaporate, and ideals have vanished, these masculine subjects find themselves disoriented, bamboozled in the love encounter. And they no longer know how to locate themselves in their masculinity in crisis. However, the women are not outdone: Daniela who films every instant of her day-to-day life on her vlog<\/em>[5]<\/a> and who exposes her life online, Ester who falls in love with her sports coach, the ex-wife and Santi\u2019s dates; all of them embody, each one in their own way, the boundlessness of female madness and ravage<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On the question of love, each of them will have to invent, one by one, a solution which allows for the absence of the sexual relationship[6]<\/a>. For, patriarchy or not, \u201cthere is no pre-set formula for the relationship between the sexes\u201d[7]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

References from the autor.
\n[1]<\/a> Alpha Males<\/em>, Television broadcast, Caballero A. & L., Spain, Netflix, 2022.
\n[2]<\/a> Leguil C., \u201cCritique of the monopoly of legitimate jouissance\u201d, <\/em>Authoritarianism<\/em>, blog Pipol\u00a011, 17\u00a0March\u00a02023, online\u00a0: https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/2023\/03\/16\/critique-du-monopole-de-la-jouissance-legitime-clotilde-leguil<\/a>.
\n[3]<\/a> Vinciguerra R.-P., \u201cL\u2019avenir de l\u2019homme\u201d, Discours woke<\/em>, blog Pipol\u00a011, 26\u00a0February\u00a02023, disponible en ligne<\/a>.
\n[4]<\/a> Cf. Vincent F., \u201cLa mode du \u201ff\u00e9minisme washing\u201d atteint les entreprises\u201d, Le Monde<\/em>, 8\u00a0janvier\u00a02018, disponible en ligne<\/a>. [Vincent F., \u201cThe fashion of \u201cfeminism washing\u201d reaches the enterprises\u201d, Le Monde<\/em>, 8\u00a0January\u00a02018].
\n[5]<\/a> A vlog is a video blog.
\n[6]<\/a> Cf. Lacan J., The Seminar\u00a0XX. Encore. On Feminine<\/em> Sexuality<\/em>. The Limits of Love and Knowledge<\/em>. 1972-1973, edited by J.-A.\u00a0Miller, translated with notes by B.\u00a0Fink, New York, London, Norton, 1999, p.\u00a044.
\n[7]<\/a> Miller J.-A., \u201cLa th\u00e9orie du partenaire\u201d, Quarto<\/em> n\u00b077, July 2002, p.\u00a022, our translation.<\/p>\n

Translation: Eva Reinhofer
\nProofreading: S\u00e9bastien Dauguet<\/p>\n

Picture : \u00a9 Nathalie Crame<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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