Independent UK: Outback mayor urges 'ugly' women to move

[marmar]

Outback mayor urges 'ugly' women to move

Tuesday, 19 August 2008


The mayor of an outback mining town in deepest Queensland has angered Australia's womenfolk by suggesting that those who are "beauty disadvantaged" might head to Mount Isa.

Even in a society where testosterone-fuelled, sexist epithets have traditionally been part of the common parlance, Mayor John Molony might just have gone a little too far.

What inspired Mayor Molony to put his civic foot in it was the female drought in Mount Isa, where he claims the blokes far outnumber the "sheilas". Invited to come up with a solution to redress the balance, he proposed that a few lovelorn "ugly ducklings" could do worse than move to the remote mining town to find a partner.

"May I suggest if there are five blokes to every girl, we should find out where there are beauty-disadvantaged women and ask them to proceed to Mount Isa," he told a local newspaper.

To add insult to injury, Mr Molony implied that the look on some of the women who already lived there proved him right. "Quite often you will see walking down the street a lass who is not so attractive with a wide smile on her face," he explained to the Townsville Bulletin. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/outback-mayor-urges-ugly-women-to-move-901830.html

[Bicoastal]

1. A sexist Australian?!

Whooda thunk? :shrug:

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. When the French needed women in 17th Century Quebec...

they rounded up a bunch of prostitutes, drunks, asylum patients and criminals with boobs and put them on a boat for Quebec.

And it wouldn't be a completely foreign concept given the history of the population of Australia...