THE women of Mount Isa can’t wait to get their hands on John Molony.
Comments by the mayor beckoning “beauty-disadvantaged” women to the city have backfired and he could have one massive domestic on his hands.
Women throughout the city have voiced their disgust, disappointment and sheer disbelief at comments made by the mayor in the national media.
Some have called for his resignation.
Others have put his comments down to a bad case of poor taste and small town idiocy.
For one group of women, they’re taking their anger to the street - staging a rally at the civic centre this evening from 6pm.
At the weekend, Mayor Molony said men outnumbered women at a ratio of five-to-one and suggested “not-so-attractive” women were happy with the gender imbalance.
Earlier, Mr Molony had told national radio: “We find a lot of obese girls are making their way up here, and they fnd it’s a lot easier to lose weight. There’s a great incentive because there’s that much attention focused on them and they become interested in looking better – and in no time they just shed it.”
But while the comments have raised the ire of women throughout the city, and the town’s men seem all but oblivious, the tables have been turned.
For Mount Isa women, who would aparently have their pick of male talent given the odds, it’s all about opportunity gone begging.
For Isa women, Catherine Willett, 26, Melissa Kuhl, 24, Clare Kreis, 23, Anna Warrick, 27, when it came to the men of this city it was more a matter of quantity not quality.
The four told The North West Star that men who said there were no good women in Mount Isa were looking in the wrong places.
They also accused local men of not looking after themselves or making an effort.
“At events like the races, where the girls really step up in what they wear, it gives the guys a chances to actually dress up for once and still they don’t,” Ms Willett said.
“And you just want to go up to them and just say “if you realised how many girls would hone in on you if you just dressed up a bit” - Even just a shirt would do - anything but a singlet.”
“It’s just a pity that even when the guys do have the opportunity to impress a girl they still don’t take it.”
The girls have found themselves confronted by several realities on the relationship front.
Ms Willett takes a more philosophical view.
“It’s not like they don’t have any confidence because guys do. It’s just that we don’t know if they want a relationship or a one night stand or a bit of fun. It may be just that they are looking for something different to what girls are looking for.”
They’ve been told to put their love lives on hold by some and asked if they were moving to the city to find a husband by others– such is the relationship conundrum facing these women.
“Basically, the Mayor said that if you really ugly and have no chance, go to Mount Isa. And then hope that the guys might get drunk enough to actually think that your attractive when that isn’t really what the girls are looking f or,” Ms Willett said.
“The beer goggle capital, I think we (the girls of Mount Isa) need to get some beer goggles.”
Reluctant to comment, Cr Molony offered little in his own defence.
“It doesn’t matter what I say, it gets bent and twisted and warped, so there’s not a lot of point me saying anything else,” he said yesterday.