“Sorry that you bumped into me! Sorry for having an opinion and expressing it! Sorry for needing to be treated like a person! Sorry for existing!”
Does women really apologize too much? Let’s say they do, but the key point is that they are reflecting the way that the world treats them:
“It’s about encouraging us to speak up in meetings as if we had never been interrupted; to present our work proudly as if we had never been condescended to in the past; and to ‘sell’ our ideas as if they had never been stolen from us.”
But, you cannot repat a word a dozen times a day without having a real impact in yourself, Mona Chollet said: Instead of protecting me, my ‘sorrys’ were wearing me down (m’erodaient)
In short, NO, women doesn’t apologize too much, it’s a reflection on how the world treats them, it’s very similar as making people individually responsible for being poor or without a job.
References
Chollet, M. (2024). Résister à la culpabilisation: Sur quelques empêchements d’exister. [Online]. Available at: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=RkEYEQAAQBAJ&pli=1 [Accessed 27 April 2025].