Mayor wins top sexist award?!
An Australian mayor’s plea for lovelorn “beauty-disadvantaged” women to move to a remote town to reverse the area’s shortage of eligible females has won him the country’s top annual award for outrageous sexist comments.
John Malony, the mayor of mining town Mount Isa in Queensland, angered women with the suggestion that “”with five blokes to every girl, may I suggest that beauty-disadvantaged women should proceed to Mount Isa”.
Women’s groups in Australia responded to his comments with heavy criticism. Molony then made matters worse by saying “the protestors are blaming me for their looks”. It was this sexist response that secured Molony his Golden Ernie award.
Now in their 16th year, the Ernie Awards ceremony is annual event that shames outrageously sexist comments and actions by men and women in the fields of Australian sport, politics, industry and media. Winners are decided by the volume of boos when the comments are presented at the women only event!
Posted: November 25th, 2008 under Truth Hurts.
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