Last week Charu had blogged about Neil French talking himself out of a job because he said
“Women don’t make it to the top because they don’t deserve to. They’re crap.” and went on to further explain the reason – women are “…a group that will inevitably wimp out and go ‘suckle something”‘
Our esteemed Economic Times covers this story with a headline that says “He spoke about women & lost his job”
That’s a bit like saying that the plague is a minor illness! Do people who write these kind of headlines actually understand what they are saying?
I am surprised the headline was not more sexy-type sensational, given that the ET was reporting it… (actually this sounds sensational enough, I guess) but how clueless can ET get?
but how does this sound to you – “Advertising chief loses job over French maid and sexist insults” –
French loses job over French maid – maybe sounds better? 🙂
the worst thing is that some people think that too much fuss is being made over this. and by some people i mean men.
Hey, whatever happened to that much vaunted term – freedom of speech?
and I quote….
‘I wonder what’s happening to our right to freedom of speech. Have we become so intolerant of other people’s ideas and opinions that we have to resort to hooliganism to be heard?’
from http://shoefiend.blogspot.com/2005/10/freedom.html
sure there is freedom of expression
but there is also freedom to hire and fire.
charu – rotlf:)