City to Women's Mag: Who You Calling Sexy?

Marie Claire's editors probably thought they were doing Milwaukee a favor when they named it the sexiest U.S. city in their August issue.

But residents of the Wisconsin metropolis seem less flattered than baffled by why a fashion magazine would include their blue-collar burg alongside the likes of Mad Men and Carla Bruni Sarkozy in a list called "The Sexy 101." "How did that happen?" one Milwaukeean asks the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a fairly typical reaction. "[C]heeseheads and beer are not sexy. Sorry," said another.

And they're not being modest, either. I've spent more than half my life in Milwaukee, and I demand a correction.

For the convenience of Marie Claire's editors -- who freely admit they didn't even send a reporter to Brewtown to investigate these allegations of sexiness before committing them to print -- I'm providing the following visual aid. On the left is Milwaukee's top sports star; on the right, New York's. Guess which one is shagging more than just fly balls?

Credit: Prince Fielder (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images), left; Alex Rodriguez
(Jim McIsaac/Getty Images), right