As you would expect, such a brilliant statement can only come from an advertising genius. His name is Neil French, and he’s the now-former world creative director of Londaon- and NY-based marketing giant WPP Group. I don’t know why they canned him. I mean, this stuff is pure gold:
French made the contentious remarks during an industry discussion in Toronto on Oct. 6. According to a report in the city's Globe and Mail newspaper, French said women did not make it to the top because "they're crap."Classic.
Nancy Vonk, a Toronto-based creative director at WPP subsidiary Ogilvy & Mather who attended the event, said French described women as "a group that will inevitably wimp out and go 'suckle something.'"
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Singapore-based French — who during the Toronto event was served drinks onstage by a woman in a French maid's uniform — was unrepentant.
I’d like to write more about how inspiring Mr. French is, but I’ve suddenly been overcome with the urge to suckle something, so I’m off to roam the streets in search of a wailing infant to whom I can offer my teat. I’m hoping to find a thoroughly Dickensian wee bairn, dirty yet cute, who will enrich my life with its old soul and penchant for joyful utterances in the face of adversity.
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