Mount Isa's mayor looking for ugly women.

John Molony.

Mount Isa is a mining town in Australia where apparently, there aren't enough women to go around for the town's miners. The town's mayor, John Molony, has a solution for this problem.

"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 recently.

If you're not familiar with the Australian dialect of English, the mayor is saying there are five guys to every girl and that they should find out where there are ugly women and invite them to come live in Mount Isa.

The good news for ugly women is that as of this morning, it only cost about $900 to fly from Boise to Sydney and there are some job openings in the town.

He points out that the town's current women's population seems to be 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."

Chances are, there are a whole lot less women, or lasses if you will, walking around Mount Isa happily after the mayor called the female population "not so attractive."

"Often those who are beauty-disadvantaged are uphappy with their lot. Some, in other places in Australia, need to proceed to Mount Isa where happiness awaits. And, really, beauty is only skin deep. Isn't there a fairy tale about an ugly duckling that evolves into a beautiful swan?"

I have to admit I'm a tad bit jealous that the mayor of Mountain Home has never said anything this stupid to me. Sometimes you have to dig deep to find a story and sometimes you just stumble into one too good to pass up with limited work required. This was one of those such times.

I'm not sure how smart it is to comment on the attractiveness level of a town when you're that town's mayor, especially when you have to run for reelection at some point and you're wife is part of that female population (I tried to find a picture of Molony's wife, but sadly couldn't), but I can follow his logic.

Hot women get hit on more than "not so attractive women." As a result, hot women can, in theory, be more selective than not so attractive women when choosing a partner for a night, a lifetime or somewhere in between. For example, if two girls walk into the bar looking for a one-night stand, the hot one might get hit on 28 times that night, giving her 28 men to chose from. The not so attractive one might only get hit on seven times, leaving her only seven guys to pick from.

By moving to a location where there aren't very many hot women, or many women at all for that matter, the not so attractive girl can increase the number of times she is hit on and therefore, increase the number of options she has available. Using the mayor's logic, if girls that weren't attractive where they live moved to his town, they'd suddenly become more attractive to the men around them.

This may sound ridiculous, but I've seen this theory in motion twice. Without mentioning any specifics, I was once part of an organization where guys outnumbered women nearly 10 to one. I saw a lot of guys trying to get into the pants of not so attractive girls for the sole reason there weren't any other options. Not to say there weren't any attractive women there or that all guys were only interested in sleeping with them, but I know many guys lowered their physical standards as the year progressed.

On the flip side of this, a girl I know who recently joined the Army told me she was looking forward to the Army because she didn't consider herself very attractive and didn't think she got enough attention from guys and thought that would change in the Army.

If I were a guy in Mount Isa, I'd be upset that the mayor is trying to encourage "not so attractive" women to move to town and not attractive ones. He implies that the men in Mount Isa aren't good enough to date and marry attractive women. He also makes the entire town look retarded for voting in a man who actually believes a woman's happiness level is dependent upon her attractiveness level.