Toronto the Ugly?
The famed Just for Laughs comedy festival hits Montreal next week. One joke traditionally heard during the three-week event is being retired. It goes like this:
"The women in Montreal are so beautiful. Where do you send all the ugly women, to Toronto?"
Ha ha. Another laugh at the expense of Toronto.
According to "Let's All Hate Toronto" filmmaker Albert Nerenberg, the joke will be retired at a ceremony after his film is screened in Montreal. The reason? It's simply not true, he says. Toronto ladies are hot.
Yeah, we know.
Sure, Montrealers are admired for their European-influenced style and fashion. Torontonians are better known for Bay St. and relentlessly supporting an unsuccessful hockey team. But we know we're hot, we just don't need a joke to prove it.
Silly Montreal, it thinks it's so sexy with its cigarettes, dépaneurs and joie de vivre.
A Montreal co-worker challenged us hot local people and asked for names of beautiful and famous Toronto women. We tried to brainstorm a list but the conversation quickly turned confusing. Model Daria Werbowy? Ukrainian-born. Rachel McAdams? From London, Ontario. Belinda Stronach? Silence.
Ultimately, I decided that one does not have to be born in Toronto to be a beautiful Torontonian. An increasing number of friends and co-workers are native to other cities and even other countries but they now call the GTA home. That is what sets us apart from cities like Montreal. This city, as Nerenberg says, has something new going on. "There's a certain kind of exotic look and there's a freshness to the beauty of the people here that actually Montreal doesn't have."
As for the joke? The rumour is that the joke is being edited so that we send all the ugly women to Hamilton. Let's all (continue to) hate Hamilton!
Photo by Osei
Comments (22)
One summer afternoon people watching in Yorkville is enough to prove that Toronto is FAR from being filled with ugly people. =)
Sorry Toronto but my personal opinion from living in both is that I still think Montreal showcases many more beautiful women.
Also neither come close to the west coast :)
I was told we built the CN Tower especially for Montrealers so they could continue to look down their noses on us.
Oh, we have stunning women alright. The problem in both Montreal and Toronto is that they prettier they are (or can be) on the outside, the uglier they are on the inside.
I have to go with Xavier on this, it's the same here across the lake. Most (not all) of these women have been told they were "princesses" all of their life, and they started to believe it. I won't comment on the 'west coast girls", they all look like the Olsen twins. Rich, dumb, coked up skeletons.
Toronto women are cooler...Toronto has Emily Haines and Magneta Lane, nuff said.
Everywhere I go, I see beautiful women.
I don't buy the argument that one city has more beautiful women than another. The only difference may be how much time the people spend on fashion, makeup, and frivilous grooming - none of which make people any more beautiful in reality.
Nerenberg is right. Something has happenned lately.
Toronto all of a sudden has all these beautiful women!
Generally, I've heard it as comparing Quebec/Ontario, but I guess Montreal/Toronto is essentially the same debate. What about Linda Evangelista? She's from St. Catharines.
But I have to admit it ... Montreal girls are prettier. They have this certain sparkly confidence that Toronto women seem to lack.
True. Toronto women have become more beautiful. They still are a little uptight though. Let's All Hate Toronto is quite funny by the way.
I vote for this being the most superficial blog, evar! Woohoo! Let's criticize men for once. They're all downright ugly in Toronto. None have heard of fashion, ever. I have to say, when I was in Montreal a couple of weeks ago, what I noticed was how sharply dressed and attractive all the men looked - and they weren't gay.
I just to moved to Toronto from Edmonton, and I must say - while the ladies here are quite hot, the men are so ugly! I cannot believe that for how many men live in this city, so few are even decent looking.
I like Toronto and all, but man, I miss seeing hotties on a daily basis.
Ummm... I have spotted myself some major hotties of the manly variety in Toronto... lots and lots... I have to keep my hands in my pockets in case I reach out and ... commit a sexual assault.
What too much?
This is what Toronto men have to contend with--pretty on the outside, ugly on the inside seems to be the Toronto norm. And I'm not proud of some "Miss Universe" princess with a team of people who help make her pretty and just happens to be in/from Toronto.
"Toronto boys be fug. It's not fair."
"They're all downright ugly in Toronto. "
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