The mayor of an Australian town has come under fire for urging unattractive women to move in. He said they will find a man because there is a shortage of women in the remote town.
John Moloney, mayor of Mount Isa in Queensland, said his town was a place for “ugly ducklings to turn into beautiful swans” and called on the “beauty-disadvantaged” to go there.
Following anger over his remarks, Moloney stood by his comments. He said he did not mean to offend anybody, but wanted to highlight the gender imbalance in the town of some 25,000 people.
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty can be a good set of teeth or nice wavy hair. Beauty can be blue eyes or green eyes,” Moloney said.
Anne Morris, who has lived in Mount Isa for 50 years, said she had not come across anyone who she would call ugly.
“The people that are coming into town now are coming here to work and find a house and live and bring up their families, but with these sort of comments, I’d say ‘There’s no way I’m going up to that place’,” she said.
Bernard Gillick, the manager of the city’s popular Irish club, says the mayor’s solution might not be the right one. “If guys have the right attitude then any type of girl will be happy to be with them, so maybe the guys need to fix their attitudes a little bit.”
(STAFF WRITER WITH AFP)
澳洲一個小鎮的鎮長因鼓勵長相平平的女子遷入該鎮而飽受批評。他說，因為他們這個偏遠小鎮陽盛陰衰，所以這些女性可以在這裡找到另一半。
昆士蘭州伊薩山鎮的鎮長約翰．莫隆尼說，伊薩山鎮是個能讓「醜小鴨變成天鵝」的地方，並號召「醜女」移居該鎮。
面對發言引發眾怒，他仍堅持立場，並表示他無意冒犯任何人，只是想強調這個人口約兩萬五千人的小鎮男女失衡的問題。
莫洛尼說：「情人眼裡出西施，美可以是一口皓齒或一頭波浪捲髮，美也可以是藍眼珠或綠眼珠。」
住在伊薩山鎮五十年的安妮．莫里斯說，她在這裡可沒看過什麼醜女人。
她說：「現在來此的人多是來工作和安家立命的。但聽完鎮長這一席話，我會說：『我死都不會去那裡』。」
該鎮熱門的愛爾蘭夜總會經理柏納．吉利克說，鎮長想出來的解套方式不盡恰當，「如果男方的心態正確，任何女孩子跟他們在一起都會很開心，所以那些男人或許該修正一下心態。」
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