Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Stupid You look like crap today. And every day.
Posted by Gwynedd Stuart @gwynnstu on Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:15 PM
Good news! Travel + Leisure has published another bullshit Top 20 list based on an online survey of its readers' broad generalizations and vague notions about various U.S. cities!
Bad news! A National magazine is telling everyone that you dress like shit!
Good news! As I mentioned above, lists like these are bullshit and basically just serve as link bait for T+L! But, c'mon, let's not kid ourselves. We like complaining about them. And the people who write about them. Go to town in the comments, guys.
So, T+L readers decided that Atlanta is the seventh worst-dressed city in the country. What was this presumption based upon? Did they all visit Anchorage, Alaska — the No. 1 worst dressed city — and notice an especially egregious number of really poorly dress people? Or are they just assuming that people in Anchorage don't dress very fashionably because it's Alaska and everyone wears overalls made of animal pelts? I don't know. Neither does T + L, really. That's actually one of the most fun parts of these exercises, watching a young magazine writer just crawl inside the damp, hollow confines of her readership's collective consciousness only to end up making assumptions about its inner workings. Par exemple:
If the flashy reality-TV stars of The Real Housewives of Atlanta are at all indicative of how the rest of Atlanta dresses, it’s no wonder our readers ranked it as America’s No. 7 least-stylish city. Hotlanta has one of the highest per capita incomes of any southern city, but as the TV show illustrates and the saying goes: money can’t buy taste.
Yes. You're right. An entire city looks, dresses, and behaves exactly like the handful of women on a reality television show. Money can't buy taste. Nor can it make you a hipster. But it CAN buy you a subscription to T+L! Just a dollar a month to find out how much your city sucks dick! Thanks for the offer, guys!
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