It’s been a dark, bleak few months.
And you know what we need now more than ever? The happy stuff. The good stuff. The stuff that makes us feel BETTER about the world.
SO, let’s do exactly that.
Here’s three bright, smiley stories to lift your mood and make you feel all the Fri-yay feelz.
1. Policewoman donned in bikini takes down pesky thief.
Mikaela Kellner, an off-duty Swedish policewoman, is taking the Internet by storm for her incredible act of heroism… in a bikini.
Having served in the police force for 11 years, Kellner was enjoying a day in the sun with her girlfriends when a pickpocket under the guise of a magazine salesman approached.
It was only after the unusual magazine enthusiast left the group that Kellner’s best friend realised something: her phone had vanished.
But she had nothing to worry about – because her police lady mate is SUPERWOMAN.
Top Comments
Nice stories, can we also have one on the men in hijab a movement. Apparently the brainchild of a NYC based Iranian who has encouraged Iranian men to support women's rights. In Iran the government is forcing women to wear hijabs, calling them "spoiled meat" if they don't do so (hmm sounds like the cat meat comment from the Australian imam, now we know where he got the idea from). So in response a whole lot of Iranian guys are pictured with their wives. The wives are bare headed, and their moustached husbands are wearing a hijab! One guy said if seeing a woman's hair means you can't control yourself then don't look! The guy pictured in a burka is the best photo of the lot!
Nice to see some Muslim men standing up for equality, that's what we need to see more of. We need to encourage this.
Women have been forced to wear the chador and hijabs in Iran since the revolution over 35 years ago. It is usually men who attack and abuse the women who don't adhere to the dress code.
Hi Susie, in reply to you, yes I agree with you, I'm not some kind of apologist for Islam if that is what you are thinking. The level of oppression in Islamic countries by men over women makes me very angry. The reason I wanted this story to be told is two fold it shows that women aren't all "choosing" to wear the veil, as some media Muslim darlings here would lead us to believe, but it also shows that some men are trying to do the right thing and I would like to see that encouraged. I think these men are possibly a minority, but I would really like to see these guys who are acknowledging that there is a problem in Islamic countries and therefore they are speaking out for women's rights to be encouraged, because if there are other men within these communities who believe in the equality of women it encourages them to come forward, and it also encourages women who are the victims of this kind of oppression to feel more supported and therefore speak out. I would like to see these kind of people being supported by the West not the religious fanatics who wish to oppress women.
Gravity Pavements was hardly an unqualified success. They made a bunch of lesser qualified people happy but alienated the higher paid qualified people.