‘WOMAN IS DIFFERENT, WE’RE ALL UNIQUE’ | Eve Gilles (Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais) was the one contestant on this 12 months’s competitors whose hair was cropped quick. (Agence France-Presse)
DIJON, France — The lady elected Miss France 2024 has framed her victory as a win for “variety,” drawing reward for her quick hair in addition to predictable criticism from viewers of the wonder pageant which has confronted accusations of sexism.
“Nobody ought to dictate who you’re,” declared 20-year-old Eve Gilles, who was the one contestant on this 12 months’s competitors whose hair was cropped quick.
“We’re used to seeing stunning Misses with lengthy hair, however I selected an androgynous look with quick hair,” she stated after her victory on Saturday evening, including that each “girl is completely different, we’re all distinctive.”
The lady from a village close to Dunkirk in northern France was elected within the metropolis of Dijon in entrance of 5,000 pageant followers.
Half the rating was decided by viewers, the opposite half by a jury of seven ladies.
On social media, many viewers reacted with delight, batting down criticism that portrayed her choice as politicized.
“Perhaps the brand new #MissFrance isn’t beautiful in your eyes, however seeing wokeism in her as a result of she has quick hair…. It’s simply ridiculous,” stated one admirer of the brand new Miss France on X.
“Eve Gilles is the brand new Miss France 2024, your malicious and ineffective criticisms gained’t change that, she’s elegant,” stated one other X consumer.
‘Magnificence standards’
To critics of the pageant, its evolution has been inadequate.
Melinda Bizri of the Human Rights League in Dijon, which known as for a boycott of the ceremony, known as the beauty adjustments “feminist-washing.”
“Girls have been abusing themselves all their lives to attain these phantasmagorical standards, in response to patterns that take a really very long time to deconstruct,” she stated.
“Miss France continues to be simply as sexist in the way in which it classifies ladies in response to magnificence standards,” added Violaine de Filippis, spokesperson for the group Dare Feminism!
Alexia Laroche-Joubert, chief govt of Banijay France which owns the Miss France model, defended the pageant as an emblem of “success” and a “social elevator” for contestants who’ve later change into “businesswomen, medical doctors or movie administrators.”
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The standards of the competition has been “modernized,” she stated, in that there is no such thing as a longer an age restrict for individuals, who can now even be married or transgender.
