by snarly | Apr 11, 2019 | Academic apologies, Celebrity Apologies, Media Apologies, Youth apologizes
Does an apology erase the past? Of course not. But an apology still has value. A good one can help people who are hurt and angry feel better. That’s not nothing. The word “heal” is wildly overused (often by people who apologize badly, who use the...
by sumac | Feb 8, 2019 | Celebrity Apologies
Millionaire beer heiress Cindy McCain, second wife and widow of the late Senator John McCain, was passing through the Phoenix airport when she was bothered by the sight of a woman with a small child “of a different ethnicity.” Yeah, so? McCain herself has been in an...
by snarly | Sep 15, 2018 | Celebrity Apologies, Personal Apologies
The apology letter to Terry Crews (delightful, funny Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor) from Adam Venit (handsy, gross, disgraced movie agent who groped Crews’s genitals at a party) is really bad. Spectacularly bad. Bad enough to warrant its very own Bad Apology Bingo...
by snarly | Sep 14, 2018 | Celebrity Apologies, Fashion Apologies
The story, as originally broken by Fashionista: A clothing company, in an anti-cyberbullying initiative (apparently it is a REVELATION that cyberbullying is wrong!), partnered with celebrities and “influencers” (again, please, no) to put cruel online...
by snarly | May 7, 2018 | Celebrity Apologies, Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Media Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
It’s Amber Ruffin on Late Night with Seth Meyers, apologizing like a sexual harasser! To be fair, of course, we don’t know for sure that Seth didn’t ask Amber Ruffin to punch him in the face. And also to be fair, we haven’t heard from the many,...
by snarly | Mar 30, 2018 | Celebrity Apologies, Media Apologies
Most of us know the backstory: Talk show host/harpy Laura Ingraham mocked Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting survivor David Hogg. Hogg responded with a suggestion that people boycott Ingraham’s advertisers. Seven advertisers, sensing prevailing winds, immediately...
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