First, Travel + Leisure shocked the world -- shocked, we say! -- by declaring New York City -- New York City! -- the rudest city in the nation.  Unprecedented! Oh, the inhumanity!  The sheer injustice of it all!  Since no one we know has ever had a rude encounter with a rude person in the rude city that never [bleeping] sleeps, we have no idea how T+L came up with such an unpredictable and incredible conclusion.

Naturally, the smarty-pants bloggers at Gothamist -- New Yorkers, Ivy Leaguers, elitists, masters-of-the-snarkiverse -- responded in the only sensible way:  by calling T+L "irrelevant" and its readers "sensitive." 

Of course, the irony here is that Gothamist revealed it's infinitely more sensitive than the average T+L reader (poor babies).  And when you consider that T+L's reach dwarfs Gothamist by, oh, 3-4x, it seems that relevance is in the eye of the beholder.

New Yorkers Aren't "Friendly" Enough, Say Sensitive Readers Of Irrelevant Magazine
America's Rudest Cities