All right, welcome to the man talk show.

I'm Connor Beaton.

And today we're to be talking about the male apologist.

Now, this is maybe a term, an archetype that maybe you've never heard of before.

You're probably not going to find it in, you know, Merriham Webster's dictionary.

But it is a term and an archetype, a sort of personality that I have seen continuing to rise and grow within our modern culture.

And the reason why I wanted to talk about this is because the male apologist in some

ways very damaging to male and female relationships.

Because as I'm going to get into in this video, he's challenging to date for women.

He is someone that's very hard to trust for men.

And as an individual, the male apologist often feels very dissatisfied within his own life. Now, as I go through defining what a

male apologist is, how he is generally created, I just want you to think about maybe somebody

in your life that sort of fits this bill.

Now, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just for a deeper level of understanding of how

some of us work. And frankly, I've been this guy. I was like what I would categorize as a male

apologist in my 20s. I was deeply untrustful

towards other men. I would talk shit about them behind their back. I gained a tremendous

amount of self-worth and validation from women. I tried to create a personality and an identity

based on what I thought women wanted me to be as a man.

So I'm giving you some insight into what this archetype is like.

And to be honest, I probably did the most damage in my life when I was this character,

when I was this archetype, when I was bought into this internal narrative. And I'm going to talk about why it's so

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