If I were the Marketing Director of Movistar Plus+, I would have used this slogan in the promotion of Fácil, the series created by Anna R. Costa that has just been released: “Fácil”, the adaptation of “Lectura fácil”, which the public did not like author of ‘Easy to read’. Because we can all play pimp, not just Cristina Morales. He would have even upped the ante and quoted the high-weight qualifier Morales gave him in the column he wrote to cook the series. “Nazi,” he called her. There take it, dance it. In short, as the Nati, one of its protagonists, would say, “fantasies of a backward bourgeoisie”.
Morales’ statements have heirs in a phenomenon that suffers from any work that portrays underrepresented groups, in this case people with functional diversity: that of double standards. For example, I remember when The L Word was criticized because its protagonists were too beautiful and successful, as if fantasy (of a retarded bourgeoisie) should be taboo in a lesbian series. Or when Orange Is the New Black was criticized for marginalizing non-white women too much. As if that weren’t the case in any American prison.
Fácil’s sin loses the novel’s militancy in the eyes of those who criticize it. In my opinion, Fácil does something very difficult: he creates a naturalistic, comical and narrow tone beneath which beats a subtext that makes every viewer question what they mean by normal and desirable, by freedom and independence. But subtext and humor do not go down well with many militants. Beneath the laughter there is no mockery of the protagonists, no collusion with the system, there is the uneasiness of a reality we don’t normally contemplate. One in which “disabled civic fantasies” is much more than a bad joke in a column.
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