Ugly women need love too!

Now I wouldn't profess to know a great deal about women but I was rather intrigued by the appeal for aesthetically challenged women from the mayor of Mount Isa, a town in the Australian outback. If the objective is to get women to come to your town for forlorn men seeking love and relationships, maybe describing them as ugly is not a good starting point! I would have thought that simple courtesy, if not common sense would have meant him choosing his words more carefully. Didn't anyone think to mention this to him. I would really love to hear his chat up lines or be a fly on the wall to his conversations whilst on a date. It's literally not a good advertisement for Aussie (Outback) men. They do say that stereotypes have a kernel of truth which is then exaggerated to a ridiculous extent. In this case it would appear that no exaggeration is needed. As you can imagine the women of the town aren't too happy with that kind of publicity, I wonder if the mayor is married and what's his wife's take on all of this, we certainly have some idea about what she has to put up with. If this is the best the men of Mount Isa can muster then my advice would be to give up on enticing women to their town, they're hardly likely to be mounting anything in the foreseeable future. They should stick to the ungulates that have spawned a thousands jokes - Australia where men are men and sheep are nervous!

Ugly women wanted in Australia
Monday, August 18, 2008 | 5:23 PM

AP

The odds are good, but the goods are odd

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Life can get a little lonely for bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. So the mayor has offered up a solution: recruit ugly women.

Mayor John Molony found himself under attack Monday over comments he made to a local newspaper that read: "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."

The mayor added that many women who already live in the remote Queensland state town seem quite happy.
"Quite often you will see walking down the street a lass who is not so attractive with a wide smile on her face," he continued. "Whether it is recollection of something previous or anticipation for the next evening, there is a degree of happiness."

The quotes, published Saturday in the Townsville Bulletin, sparked outrage among the town's female population, led to furious online debates and drew criticism from the local chamber of commerce.

"There's a lot of anger circulating among the community at the moment - a lot of passionate anger," Mount Isa Chamber of Commerce manager Patricia O'Callaghan said Monday. "There's a lot of women voicing their opinions."

Molony declined to elaborate on his comments Monday except to say they were "twisted and warped" by the newspaper.

"I've been shredded," he added, before hanging up the phone.

The situation may not be quite as dire as Molony noted. According to the 2006 census, males made up 52.6 percent of the town's population of nearly 20,000.

And several local women said there aren't a lot of gems to be found among Mount Isa's men, either.

"We've got a saying up here that the odds are good, but the goods are odd," 27-year-old Anna Warrick told The Brisbane Times.

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