by snarly | Nov 2, 2017 | Bropology, Celebrity Apologies, Funny-on-Purpose Apologies
Last year, SorryWatch approvingly noted that actor Chris Hemsworth made a good apology for insensitive behavior. It turns out that his character Thor is also a good apologizer! In a deleted scene from the first Thor movie in 2011, we learn that during the Asgardian...
by snarly | Oct 7, 2017 | Bropology, Media Apologies
As you know, on October 5, the New York Times broke the news (or rather, reported extensively on an open secret and got on-the-record confirmation from famous actresses) about years of sexual harassment claims about producer Harvey Weinstein. One of Weinstein’s...
by snarly | Jul 21, 2017 | Bropology, Sports Apologies
By the end of this horrible, un-yogic apology you will be lying in savasana on your floor. (See what I did there.) THE BACKSTORY: Earlier this week, in a 20,000-member closed Facebook group for yoga teachers, a fat yoga teacher (I use the word “fat” as a...
by sumac | Jul 14, 2017 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies
Parkour, closely related to free running, is cool. Fun to do and to watch. You’re dashing through the built world like an obstacle course, bouncing off stuff, leaping from building to building as if pursued by killers, hurtling walls, maybe tossing in...
by snarly | May 21, 2017 | Bropology, Celebrity Apologies
You may or may not remember Happy Days, a relic from a long-ago time before Ron Howard was a big-macher director and Scott Baio was an intolerance-spewing sexist bigot. It was also a time before Henry Winkler was a best-selling children’s book author and/or...
by snarly | Mar 14, 2017 | Bropology, Institutional Apologies, True Crime Apologies
…you should probably step down. Apologies can only do so much. On that note: Meet Robin Camp! A provincial judge in Canada, he asked the accuser in a rape trial, “Why couldn’t you just keep your knees together?” He also informed her that...