Stop Worrying About Women’s Apologies —Address Men’s Defenses

Emily J. Smith
6 min readJul 2, 2021

It is said, ad infinitum, that women apologize too much. I’ve spent a non-trivial amount of time wondering what “too much” means, when I regularly wish the men in my life would apologize more. While women are said to apologize more than necessary, men’s defenses are often impenetrable. Neither of these are good, but there is no national campaign to lower male defenses, as there is for…

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Emily J. Smith

Writer and tech professional. My debut novel, NOTHING SERIOUS, is out Feb '25 from William Morrow / HarperCollins (more at emjsmith.com).