When I first watched the video, it was clear that the pair was in the wrong. Their body language was telling—as Coldplay’s frontman Chris Martin pointed out from the stage, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.” It was obvious that it was the former. This situation is terrible. Two families have been torn apart, and a company’s workforce is disrupted. While the public views it as a bizarre form of entertainment, for those involved and their loved ones, it’s a crisis with catastrophic impact.
🚨Just in: Astronomer CEO Andy Byron has officially resigned from the company after the viral video from the Coldplay concert pic.twitter.com/yDutZrMKJg
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Reflecting on the scene, my surprise turned to anger. By being at the concert together, Byron and Cabot were blatantly betraying their families while basking in the thrill of it. It was the final moment of joy in tasting the forbidden fruit just before the shame took over. Watching the clip again, Kristin Cabot’s expression changes first, horror flashing across her face, followed by Andy Byron’s look of deep concern. She quickly covers her face and turns away. As for Byron, the man, the CEO, the supposed leader? He ducks out of sight, leaving his mistress to face the camera, the shame, and the crowd’s laughter alone. A moment ago, Byron betrayed his wife; now, he also betrays the woman with whom he was having an affair. It was a cowardly move—much like the original Adam.
Genesis 3:12 tells us that when God confronted the first man about eating the forbidden fruit, Adam deflected blame: “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.” It’s the same script we saw play out on that concert screen: abandonment, shame, and blame.
But the cowardice of Adam and Andy is hardly isolated. We see it repeated across our culture—in grown men who won’t commit to the women they impregnate, in absentee fathers, in elected officials too timid to stand against gender activists, in military officers who enforce unlawful orders, and in pastors who chase cultural approval instead of truth. America doesn’t suffer from an excess of toxic masculinity—it suffers from a plague of toxic male cowardice. We have too many adult males, but too few men.
