If Miss Zimbabwe is “too white,” Miss France is instead “too thin and has short hair.” The victory of 20-year-old Ève Gilles, a mathematics and computer science student, in the beauty contest also sparked a heated social debate in Paris. Users are taking action against the newly elected Miss because she does not represent what they define as “French beauty”. In addition to looking “too androgynous”, “short” haircut and “informality”, Gilles was also criticized for defending people's right to look however they want. “No one should tell you who you are. I want to show that competition and society are evolving and that the representation of women is different. In my opinion, the value of beauty is not limited to the haircut or the shapes we have. The crown holds up very well even on my short hair,” said the 20-year-old, who is branded a “champion of woke culture” by the same users. “Short hair, no curves and victim talk,” one of the comments on X. “Miss France is once again promoting everything that is fundamentally against female beauty,” says another. The affair also had political implications: Green MPs Sandrinne Rousseau and Karima Delli took on the defense of the young woman. “In France in 2023, do we measure the progress of respect for women by the length of their hair?” wrote Rousseau about the situation in which she suffers the violence of a society that does not accept that women express themselves in all their diversity define. “
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