Why did Shakira demand to El Temach?

In recent days they arose Rumors of one supposed demand by the singer Shakira against the influencer Luis Alfonso Castilleja, known in social networks as “El Temach” for creating content on masculinities, love relationships and biological essentialisms. The controversy It started when the Temach made comments About one of the children of Shakirawhich unleashed a wave of reactions on social networks.

“I have been demanding Shakiraif you want to read it, if you love me advisepike it here. I upload it so that everyone can read it and we can face this problem together, ”said the influencer Through a story on Instagram after assuring in a video for social networks that “around female “of the singer was”Dawing”To one of his children.

Although users on social networks celebrated the demand against influencerapparently the video was nothing more than a strategy To generate controversy and interactions, because people on the Internet claim that said documented does not exist and that everything was a plan of the influencer To create another controversyAnd is that neither Shakira nor have your team issued an official pronouncement in this regard.

And those who opened the attached link in history explained that it was a “rickroll”, a trap link. This strategy is used to wake up interest For the user to click and redirect it to the video “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley.

This is not the first time that the influencer emits comments macho, misogynists and perpetuate Stereotypes Gender, on the contrary, has forged his career in social networks through conservative speeches that glorify biological essentialisms and the hyper masculinization of men who have become a reference for Incel men.

How did the controversy start?

The controversy began after the influencer ensure that one of the children of Shakira He was “was Dawing”As a consequence of spending more time with his mother than with his father.

In the case of Shakirahis criticism of the raising of the singer’s children focuses on the fact that Shakira He is raising his children in a around mostly feminine, which, according to the temach, is affecting the “virility“Of the children.

Say that a child “is Dawing“For not having a figure male Nearby is a clear example of toxic masculinity, a harmful vision of what it means to be a man, which limits men to fit in rigid roles and prevents them from expressing emotions, interests or behaviors in a free and authentic way.

“Did you see the videos that are coming out of the son of Shakira? They are very sad, they are Dawing very hard because he is not living with the father. (…) He around in which it is is a around very feminn and there is no energy maleand is in the adolescence process in which Dawing Very hard because he was before a football boy, ”said the Temach.

This type of comments They are based on the false idea that children, not being surrounded by male figures, begin to adopt behaviors that the influencer Consider “female“or” weakening. “For the temach, this phenomenon would be a” natural “result of the lack of” influence male“In the child’s life. His speech perpetuates a binary and essentialist vision of genres, where the masculinity It looks like an exclusive and vital force for the development of men.