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This is totally going to bring everyone down, I know, but: Travel+Leisure’s readers have arbitrarily decided that we’re a bunch of ugly people. (Not quite as unattractive as, say, Memphis, but still.) So says the newly-crowned arbiter of beauty in America:

This hotbed of culture (No. 2) apparently doesn’t attract the hotties—unless you count lobbyists and policy wonks as hot. But hey, it has moved up from the bottom five of this list, where it sat last year. Our nation’s capital also ranks near the bottom for wild weekends and romantic getaways.

In other news, I find T+L’s three uses of the word/prefix “hot” in the first 18 words of a 53-word blurb almost as unattractive as the magazine’s readers apparently find our citizens. We might be an unattractive bunch, but I’d be willing to wager that most of us could put together a far sexier paragraph than that.