I have a theory about the real reasons for the media lynching that mother-grandmother of the year has caused. It has not been (only) the surrogate, because others did it before and the same thing did not happen. Nor was age, since the lynching continued when she said that she was the grandmother. No, the problem is not her age, but her lack of it. Although the public knows that chronologically the protagonist of the event is around seventy, she has never managed to look old enough to be a mother, much less to be a grandmother or even to be an adult. And it is this exhibition of the lack of synchrony between the chronological age and the mental age that I suppose provokes so much rejection.
As far as I remember, the one who called herself Antoñita la Fantástica has made her audience understand that she refused to grow up. And she has achieved it. Not even a hard blow like the death of a son has instilled in him a dose of existential realism, a minimum of wise prudence. Outside of her, she has not stopped trying to appear the young age that she really is. Inside, she must feel exhilarated enough to refer to the arrival of the baby, on Instagram, with this chilling phrase: “I will never be alone again.”
Doesn’t the idea of ​​a child to alleviate a mother’s loneliness refer directly to Hitchcock’s Psycho? And what about that grotesque narcissism that should disqualify any applicant from being a foster mother? And what about the overexposure to which she has subjected the defenseless minor? Its justification is even more bizarre: the legal idea of ​​”fulfilling the will of a deceased” lends itself to numerous ethical abuses and here the only real will that is fulfilled is the whim of a creature to whom neither money nor years have given Unfortunately, the maturity required of an adult.
Many of us have experienced inconsolable losses and felt the desire for something alive to last from the loved one. But the need to accept death is almost the only trait of maturity that honors us. As if all of the above were not enough, renting a human womb is a form of exploitation contrary to all ethics that can only be stopped if, as many governments request, an international convention is drawn up to abolish or regulate it (and that is going to be difficult). properly.
