A Place For Ugly Girls

August 19, 2008 / 12:03 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

I read this article and had to share it. The political incorrectness is delicious:

The mayor of an Australian outback mining town has come under fire for urging unattractive women to move in, assuring them they will find a man because there is a shortage of women.
John Moloney, mayor of Mount Isa in northwestern Queensland, told a newspaper his town was a place for “ugly ducklings to flourish into beautiful swans” and called on the “beauty-disadvantaged” to flock there.

In the face of outrage over his remarks, Moloney stood by his comments, saying he did not mean to cause offence but wanted to highlight the gender imbalance in the remote town of some 25,000 people.

“Well I said beauty disadvantaged,” he told national radio. “Now beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty can be a good set of teeth, beauty is nice wavy hair. Beauty can be blue eyes or green eyes.

“There is such a thing as disposition, temperament, manners, general attractiveness, attitude and demeanour, all those things tend to make a person attractive.”

My, my. So, in a place that’s like Alaska–remote and male-dominated–the mayor is asking the ugly women, “beauty disadvantaged” (snort), to move on out where they’ll have a chance. Oftentimes, it tends to be the butch women who like braving the butch climes. I don’t see what everyone is upset about.

Cross-posted at RightWingNews.com

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  • Trish

    I don’t see any reason to be upset. The fact is that many, if not most, women don’t realize that they are as attractive to men as they really are. When I was young I didn’t like my figure at all, but now when my older, fatter self looks at my old photographs, I realize I had nothing to be ashamed of.

    I once read a science-fiction story (unfortunately I don’t remember the title or author) that described a similar situation. Unattractive women were encouraged to ship out to space colonies where men were desperate for female companionship. At the end of the story, the women step off the ship, and the men there all gasp: “The girls were gorgeous.”

    And I don’t honestly think that a woman who doesn’t consider herself beautiful would balk at the chance to go where there is less female competition.