![]() It was like a metaphorical shield that I held up whenever I felt like I wasn't good enough. I had no idea how much I used to hide behind my hair before shaving it. I laughed out loud the whole time I was shaving it because it felt like such a release from the pressure to be a certain person and look a certain way in order to be considered beautiful. By no means do I think that shaving my head was necessary in order to be free from that, but it was a symbolic step in the right direction. ![]() I've spent most of my life looking to other people to validate my beauty and define my worth. How did it feel to shave it off? "Honestly, I didn't expect how liberating it would be. You know what's really different? Completely shaving my head." I liked it, but on the way home that evening, I just thought. While in the salon, I told my stylist that I was ready to try something new with my cut. I had thought about it before, but never seriously. When did you first shave your head? "I shaved my head for the first time a little over a week ago. The look isn't new-women have worn their hair shorn since ancient Egypt, and iconic women throughout history have adopted the look-but with the current climate of women rejecting antiquated norms in favor of self-determination, now more than ever is the time for women to own their look.Īccording to these nine women, this is exactly what that feels like. Especially considering the beauty ideals that are pushed on women from birth (thanks, shampoo commercials), bald women's blatant refusal to exist for anyone but themselves is groundbreaking. A community of women with buzz cuts and shaved heads is growing under hashtags that embrace the look, uniting people in dismissing societal standards and celebrating those who do what they want. A buzzed head represents a fearless, done-hiding movement, and in both fiction and real life, González isn't alone. A phrase topped the quartet: "The future is female, and it doesn't have time for styling products." ![]() Take #BaldiesGettheJobDone-as soon as Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González labeled a video of her shaving her head with the hashtag, a meme of Black Panther's Okoye, Mad Max's Imperator Furiosa, Stranger Things' Eleven, and González started making the rounds. A long line of the women walks through a crowd and boards a truck, on which is painted "Les Poules a Boches." A huge crowd surrounds the truck as it moves slowly down the street.Sometimes a hashtag sums it up perfectly. One woman accepts her punishment meekly but another argues vehemently. The women plead their cases (or confront their accusers?), some of whom who are wearing the armbands of the Free French Forces of the Interior (FFI) resistance movement. A woman stands before a table set up outside, behind which a few men sit. ![]() The next scene shows some kind of informal trial and punishment of women accused of collaboration. A man in the crowd attacks him and punches him a couple of times before the fight is broken up. One of the last men to be brought out is held by the back of his shirt. The police attempt to hold the crowd in check, but a woman is punched and kicked from behind as she walks past. One woman's face is smeared with what appears to be blood. Crowds on the street as women and men, holding their hands in the air, are led from a building. Close-up of the sign, which reads, "Le Char des Collaboratrices." An American soldier photographing the scene is visible in a wider shot. The women hide their faces while a man cuts off their hair with scissors. Shots of men cutting the hair of two women. The women start moving down the street, and a man lifts and then drops a pile of hair. Two men hold a paper sign above the heads of the women. The truck is surrounded by male onlookers. A group of women with shaved heads, who collaborated or consorted with the Germans, sit in the back of an open truck. Scenes of retaliation against accused collaborators in Cherbourg (first scenes), Rennes, and perhaps elsewhere in France.
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