2023-12-22 10:43:12
Opinion Eve Gilles
Why short hairstyles suddenly become a problem
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Eve Gilles, Miss France 2024
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20-year-old Eve Gilles is the first Miss France with short hair. She received heavy criticism for this. The accusation: With her hairstyle she is working to instill “woke” values in society. The decision of many women against long hair points to something completely different.
Have you already thought about what you will do with your hair on Christmas Eve? Updo, French braid, razor-short, a little gel in? When I ask this, do you feel addressed across gender? Or are you wondering how the hell I am suggesting that you, as a man, are thinking about wearing a complex braided hairstyle over the holidays? For you as a woman, is the idea of cutting your hair “short” still internally linked to rather unflattering images of androgyny?
Hair is a culture clash, that just became glaringly clear when the newly crowned “Miss France,” 20-year-old Eve Gilles from Nord-Pas-de-Calais, became the subject of a discussion that one would want to dismiss as bizarre, but it wouldn’t illustrate in an exemplary manner how the logic of the same culture war extends to almost every area of our present day. Her “pixie cut,” the serious accusation leveled at the young mathematician, was “woke,” and she was working on “instilling woke values into society.”
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In fact, Gilles is the first short-haired Miss ever in the history of the Miss France pageants. In fact, she claims to want to promote an image of women of “diversity” and in doing so uses the common phrases from the area of “body positivity”, which are particularly challenging hermeneutically when the person who expresses them is so norm-beautiful is like Gilles.
In fact, Gilles’ election is part of a series of opening measures that the French Miss pageants have taken in recent years – in theory, trans women and mothers in the spotlight of the “Male Gaze” are now allowed to walk down the stairs wearing bikinis.
Eve Gilles has been crowned Miss France 2024
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The accusation of “wokeness” is probably justified in some way if you read it in all its under-complex, permanent presence as synonymous with “somehow progressive and zeitgeisty”. A young woman who, in the setting of the Miss pageant, which is about a radical logic of pleasing, subverts this logic by doing something that she doesn’t like, becomes a symbol of a disagreement. How each time deals with this inconsistency says a lot about it.
The heated discussion about Gilles shows how monotonous and liberating such debates are these days: You can’t really celebrate Gilles as a progressive icon because, apart from her completely mainstream short hairstyle, she doesn’t do anything that would make her a symbol of liberation . And conversely, the accusation that her hairstyle is somehow “unfeminine” is so absurd that one would believe that those who do it have spent the last decades under some proverbial rock.
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From Jean Seberg to Halle Berry to Emma Watson: the scope of interpretation for a female short hairstyle is now so large that it is almost arbitrary. Short-haired is not synonymous with “androgynous”, “lesbian” or “woke”. The author Eva Tepest wrote some time ago in her attempt at a “subjective queer manifesto” that being queer means not wearing short hair – because short hair has become the sign of heterosexual hipster girls. You can think whatever you want about this absolute arbitrariness: it was there. If there is now such a broad social potential for excitement that throws the discussion back into antiquity, that doesn’t say anything good about our time.
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