08/08/2008
The mayor of a remote Australian mining town has come under fire after saying that female “ugly ducklings” might benefit from its shortage of women.
John Molony told a newspaper last week that “with five blokes to every girl, may I suggest that beauty-disadvantaged women should proceed to Mount Isa”.
The council has since been swamped with complaints from both men and women.
But Mr Molony has refused to apologise for the remarks, saying he was “telling it like it is” in the Queensland town.
With the exodus of single women from small towns to the big cities there is a severe female shortage in rural communities.
But I wonder what the mayor of the town of Glenden in the northern state of Queensland where there is only one single female for every 23 men thinks of Molony’s statement.
I’ll bet he’s thinking the same thing only he’s trying to come up with a politically correct way of saying “too unattractive for Mount Isa.”
