Open mouth, insert foots

I'll make this quick. I hate when people take credit for something and you know there's NO FREAKING WAY they did what they say they did.

I found this statement ironic. It's from a conversation on LinkedIn regarding the existence of a "copywriter's code of ethics."

This guy claims credit for a sweeping change affecting copywriters in advertising and writers the world over, for that matter. In some way, it also stemmed the tide of journalistic sexism.

While I can't say who was responsible for the change, I'm sure it's not this guy. The example doesn't make sense at all. That statement - "If customers want a mobile solution, we can help him." - would never make it into an ad. Latent sexism has nothing to do with it.

Any copywriter worth their salt (see what I did there?) would change it to "them." It's grammatically correct, chucklehead. Always has been. Always will be.

OK, I feel better now. Stepping down from the soapbox...