Advertising’s biggest pigs get some help

Advertising Women of New York have outdone themselves with the call for entries for this year’s Good, Bad & Ugly Awards. They’ve set up a hilarious Web site, Pigs Anonymous, on which well-known male creative directors, wearing pig noses, admit to certain shortcomings in their treatment of women. In the “Meet the Pigs” video, it’s clear they have some work to do. (We never thought we’d hear Nick Cohen say anything close to the following sentence: “There’s boobs from all over the world, and there’s penises from all over the world, and everyone gets to kind of intermingle, and there’s nothing wrong with any of this.”