What is it about women and saying sorry. We tend to apologise for everything, even when it is not our fault. Even when we feel that it is actually the fault of the other person. It is like we tend to protect ourselves under the shield of this one word.
And we attribute so much power to a useless word, that does not correct any wrong. It is just an emotional balm to salvage a situation.
Probably, being the weaker gender, women have evolved the apology reflex to protect themselves in the cycle of evolution. So, probably we think that saying sorry will save us from dominance. It is like when monkey turned into man, he shed the tail, and when the monkey evolved into women, she grew a vocabulary of apology. Would Asifa have been saved a tragedy if she had just said sorry?
Perhaps, women say sorry so much because they think it is polite. While we do not have the physical strength or the brutal power, we try to make our meek way through the world by dropping the S word at every turn. So, when we want to differ from the majority, we begin the sentence with an apology. “Sorry majority opinion, you may be wrong in thinking that I cannot do this because I am a girl.”
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Or may be, we say sorry to maintain our feminity. While we break the glass ceilings and stand on par with men, we feel the need to say sorry to remind the audience that we are still women. It could be booking a seat on the victim train, in case you need to board it for an emergency.
According to a 2010 study in the journal Psychological Science, women have a lower threshold for what constitutes offensive behaviour, so are more likely to see a need for an apology in everyday situations.
Women have truly made an apology their superpower. So, while his prowess makes Batman a social pariah, the female apology holds them back.
When Eve asked Adam to eat the apple, she did not say sorry. And it is high time, that women stop apologising for taking what it theirs.
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