Icelandic women and Icelandic girls are awesome. I know I'm pretty biased since I am one myself, but the rest of the world seems to be taking notice of this too. People around the world have often heard about the strong and independent Icelandic women. Quite often they've also heard about the sexy and beautiful Icelandic women - there always seems to be quite a large number of foreign men that just hear the words 'beautiful Icelandic women', which they automatically translate to 'sexy Icelandic women' but don't seem to listen when words like 'strong, independent and feminist Icelandic women' come up.
Or at least that's what some of the messages I receive indicate. Picture by Steve C. A while ago I was being interviewed by a girl from Kenya who wanted to know more about Icelandic women and what they are like - and why exactly they are so strong and independent. What is it in the Icelandic society that allows for such equality to grow and thrive? I wrote a blog about the Icelandic MP that breastfed her baby during congress but I disagree with her completely on what she was addressing in congress and about Miss Iceland who quit a beauty pageant after being told she had to go on a diet.
It's interesting however why these two women were being thrown into the international spotlight, one for showing a breast and the other one for leaving a competition that's based on women's physical beauty. Is that all that the world cares about? Nudity and beauty? Did you start reading this blog post because of the 'clickbait' picture of the beautiful woman posing in a bikini on a beach?
None of the international media mentioned one word about what the bill was that the MP was proposing stricter laws on immigrants. That's what the Icelandic news covered along with the fact that she made news around the world for publicly breastfeeding in parliament.
Here's a hidden camera video showing Icelandic response to public breastfeeding warning: There's absolutely no drama in this video. Very few international media articles mentioned that Miss Iceland is a member of the national team in athletics, none of them mentioned that she's a pole vaulter. No-one actually mentioned anything about what she does she's in her last year in high school.
