Juliette Binoche cuts her hair

Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard and Isabelle Adjani In Iran, women are pictured cutting their locks of hair in support of women.

There are those who find it pathetic, opportunistic, and ridiculous.

Some jokingly shouted: “Pffft, bearded Iranians don’t give a damn that French stars are cutting their hair.”

I think these people have short fuses.

Personally, although I know it makes no difference to the mullahs, I find the wonderful gesture of Juliet, Marion and Isabelle to be a strong symbolic gesture… much better than the Quebec artists who did nothing .

Grab a hair

The video of Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Adjani, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Julie Gayet and many others went viral around the world.

But before criticizing them, we need to understand why they did it.

In Iran, on September 16, young Mahsa Amini, 22, was arrested and killed by the morality police because a lock of her hair came out of her hijab.

Hundreds of Iranian women were filmed cutting themselves off…a lock of hair to protest the futility of his “crime”.

That’s why French movie stars cut their hair in solidarity with Iranian women.

Masih Alinejad, a courageous Iranian journalist and writer who is under police protection in the United States after two murders and a kidnapping attempt, went on the show. Good morning America Wednesday on ABC.

She was there to explain to the Americans the meaning of the uprising in Iran. And what did she do? She pulled a pair of scissors from her pocket and cut her hair live on TV, angrily explaining that “Mahsa Amini was killed for a fistful of hair.”

“Women in Iran are not necessarily fighting against wearing the hijab. They are fighting for the end of the gender-based apartheid regime. Forgive my anger. This is the anger of Iranian women who have been ignored for years.

Don’t tell me it’s a useless, ridiculous or opportunistic gesture.

in The Washington Post, Masih Alinejad recalled that several Western female politicians agreed to wear veils during their visits to Iran “and bend over backwards to respect men who raised misogyny as a state principle”. She also decried the fact that Western feminists have abandoned their Iranian sisters.

And should we, then, criticize the French actresses who answered the call of Masih Alinejad?

Capillary apartheid

We may find the video messy, we may find it doesn’t go far enough, but as Pierre Falardo said in the end: “We always go too far for people who have nowhere to go”.

Instead of criticizing and ridiculing French actresses for disputing their willingness to cut their hair, bitter minds should direct their criticism at Quebec actresses who keep their looks intact.