For the first time he saw the blue hair on one of the doors that I opened. I came up with the reaction I experience when I see a rat: a scream of terror, my hand in front of my eyes. He was our neighbor, friend, a man, a Frenchman of the few who knew from time to time how to say a pirop in these places. That day he saw the blue hair and scared. “You don’t have them?” I asked. He put his index finger on his lips, asking him to keep the secret: “I take them out.”

It's been several years since then, and my blue hair has multiplied. My friend the Frenchman lives far now and should not see me. Others see me every day. I myself see myself every day in the mirror, immersed in a process that has no turning back.

Angel Erro wrote here a few weeks ago about decay. Decline is a big issue; I just want to look at its physical, aesthetic appearance, in the eyes of the mirror. Deep breathing, at the second glance, I come across a gender issue. And as it happens in most gender issues, with the work of breaking with customs. (Work, pedagogy, solidarity, time...).

Follow your Nature, the slogan of a clothing brand from this year’s spring-summer advertising campaign. Mads Mikkelsen is a Danish actress over the age of 50, almost twenty more than the female models of the same campaign. The photos of both are very natural and Mads Mikkelsen doesn't have any effect on her hair. They underline the internal balance, the calm, the confidence. It's a tough challenge, to put it quietly, to find the equivalent woman of this image in the city's afixes. On the other hand, I am not so stupid as to believe that the production of these missing images belongs to the industry.

I don't think men age better. I have used the decadence above, but in this case you can talk about aging as a euphemism. On the way to stop being young and becoming old, in that decay, in that evolution of aging, we can find, if we want, maturity. It's the sweetest and most nutritious moment of fruits. I suspect that men have often come to this period in a more natural way. And that women still have a bit of that naturalness to gain. (Note, just in case I repeat that I mean the physical part)

As tens of thousands of young people die in wars, attempts are being made elsewhere in the world to stop old age and turn it into a young woman. It has been shown that the recovery of old mice is possible thanks to young blood. I have no clear idea who and what they are investigating.

Ours is a small battle that clashes with the structures of a society in which men have power. Unlike feminists who believe that romantic love only increases the chasm between men and women, sociologist Eva Illouz also recognizes this love as the force to internally transform patriarchy. The one who loves us, from the characteristics of love, accepts us as we are, helps us to guarantee our need for improvement. In short, you have a responsibility to be an ally in our equality verb(s).

First, we have the image that the mirror returns to us. Outside, out of loneliness, comes the image returned to us by others. We also have mirrors.