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On December 14, the French will choose a new Miss France. And we already know that Laurent Ruquier will not watch the TF1 show. The host is visibly upset by the beauty contest. Saturday, during his show, We are not lying down , Laurent Ruquier was carried away. "Since we must stop looking at women as objects, stop judging them on their physique and systematically favor the prettiest, I call: boycott this year the election of Miss France!", He said launched. And add: "We can not stand the Miss France election! It's corny! It must be logical, if you want to be a feminist, we must boycott today the Miss France contest. a good start."
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"He is mistaken fighting"
Miss France Missing? What crush the Miss France committee. We have proposed to its president Sylvie Tellier to answer this call for a boycott by the host of France 2. The president of the committee Miss France considers that Laurent Ruquier is "perfectly free" not to appreciate the contest of beauty and even of consider that women like them, from this competition, do not serve the cause of women.
"On the other hand, when Laurent Ruquier calls for a boycott of the Miss France election on the pretext that it would serve the image of women, it seems to me that he is mistaken for the fight," she says. "The definition of feminism is to work for gender equality and for the expansion of women's role in society, so when it calls for boycotting this election in the name of feminism, I want to to tell him that by doing so he is trampling on the choice made by more than a thousand young women this year by coming to the competition. "
"Women must be able to be free of their choices"
But does not Laurent Ruquier have reason to be surprised that such a contest exists at the time of MeToo? "We must stop believing that we need to have hair under the arms to advance the cause of women," said Sylvie Tellier. Recalling her personal background "bac + 5 in business law", "three children", "entrepreneur", she explained to be "very proud" to have "decided 18 years ago to march in swimsuit , to go on television, to [submit] to the public vote on physical criteria ". For Sylvie Tellier, "women must be able to be free of their choices, their dreams, their commitments, therefore free to run for Miss France."