Paternity and "aura seminalis" by Miguel Lorente Acosta

Paternity acts as a kind of masculinity metaphor by creating an image of it through a distant reality, which is used to order the perception of the situation of men.

The idea could be a poetic way of understanding male identity and the way of relating men from it, but in truth is the opposite.That romantic figure of paternity acts as a way of bringing the androcentric cultural construction to the private, and thus making intimacy the laboratory where the recipes of culture adapted to the new times arise.

From the beginning, as we collected in the article "Paternity and Juana Rivas", men have understood fatherhood as their own creation that resorts to women to be culminated.Under that idea, men give life to their creation, and give meaning to the lives of women from a double reference: to be a complement to men and present motherhood as the essence of their feminine identity.

And all this have left examples throughout history.

For a long time they used science as a demonstration of that idea of the male creation of life.In the 16th century, the theory of "preformationism" was developed, according to which, as described by Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, people were already contained in their entirety in the sperm as a kind of homunculus that was introduced into the ovule, whereHe developed thanks to the "mystical influence of semen" of which William Harvey spoke, and which he called "Aura Seminoalis".

Scientific development, such as knowledge in general, as it has advanced has allowed us to rule out those statements and conclusions, but the ideas that support them translate into other types of arguments and strategies to maintain the reference of creation as the work of men,and thus maintain that the created belongs to its creator.This is what we still find when a man refers to his wife as "the mother of my children", an idea that, in addition, is presented as a double consideration towards the woman to whom she is directed: on the one hand, for being chosenas a couple, and on the other, by making her mother, that is, "full woman", although in truth what is done is conceptualize it as an object.

Another consequence of this construction of paternity as property is that of the surnames and its order.If the objective is to "call" the child who was born to identify him, the logic dictates that it is done around the only sure thing, which is that this boy or girl was born of the woman, a criterion that should lead to the first last nameBe that guarantee the identification of the newborn person, that is, that of the mother.But that is not the goal, at least the main.The most important objective is to establish the link with the creative man, hence the first last name is his, to the point that in many countries, even, it is exclusively, without the mother's appearance for anyside.

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In any "classification" or "denomination" system, as we have indicated, the first thing that is done is to highlight the most direct and safe reference that leads to the first last name had been that of the mother, but when the reason is notcall, but assign the property, the appropriate measures are adopted to grant it to those who present as owner: the man who already part of the previous idea of possession of that woman "who gives her her children".That is why in other countries they simplify the system and directly impose the husband's surname for women to avoid confusion, and in others, as in ours, especially a time ago, women are presented under the idea of belonging to theMan, for example, when he is presented as Mrs. María García, and it is said that she is Mrs. de Rodríguez, with the husband's last name, which is the one that gives her social value.In the end, before society it remains as Mrs. María García, Mrs. de Rodríguez, that is, with two surnames of men, that of the father and the husband, and none of women.

The "mother is only one", it remains an excuse to maintain the romantic idea that presents motherhood and her "mother's love", which have tattooed the most male men, as the greatest, while thewoman object of that love is mistreated, discriminated and abused by that anonymous father and her androcentric society.

In spite of all this, and perhaps for this reason, men claim paternity that they do not exercise.Machismo, instead of breaking with all these references and claiming a different paternity based, not on the biological element and its "seminalis aura", but on care, affections and their daily exercise to make them feel and "Tattoo "on the skin, in consciousness and in the heart that" love of father "insists on maintaining his classic references of masculinity.For this reason, instead of seeking a change in paternity, what it does is attack motherhood and present women who question the impositions of an androcentric culture, such as "bad women" and, therefore, "bad mothers".

A few days ago, Mariola Lourid.Given these facts, men interpret that they are acting against them, instead of understanding that it is they with their gender violence who are acting against their sons and daughters and against what paternity should be.

There is no paternity with violence, it is something that everyone understands less those who defend that violence is something "domestic", that is, available to the "owner of the house" to maintain with it its impositions and privileges.

The men who do not have custody for having mistreated, do not have it because they themselves have retired with their violent behavior.Do not look at judges or judges or law in search of guilty, because it is they who move away from their sons and daughters with their "aura of violence".