The Los Angeles Times columnist who came under fire last week for an insensitive description of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that the critique was born out of impulses developed in a "sexist world," adding that "real men apologize" for such remarks.

“I grew up in the same sexist world everyone else does and stuff just comes out," columnist David Horsey told NBC's Megyn Kelly.

"This is a lifelong process where you just try to get better every day and sometimes your brain goes crazy or you get into a difficult spot that you didn’t expect to get into because you slipped into kind of a cliché way of thinking,” he said.

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Horsey was accused of body-shaming and misogyny last week after he described the White House's chief spokeswoman in a column as looking more like a "chunky soccer mom who organizes snacks for the kids' games," than a press secretary.

The column was edited on Friday to remove the characterization of Sanders.

The columnist apologized for the description on Saturday, saying that it failed to meet the Times's standards and his own.

"It surely won’t be my last mistake, but this particular error will be scrupulously avoided in my future commentaries," Horsey wrote in a letter attached to the column. "I’ve removed the offending description."