So, the typical response from a self-entitled bunch of fucking assoholes.

Colour me shocked.

“someone somewhere would find a reason to be offended”

This is the dumbest fucking....have you seen gymnastics? Announcers can go a whole fucking 3 hours calling it without a single person saying something that will offend this mythical “someone somewhere” you are constructing out of straw and stupidity. Motorsports…

If you struggle to think of things to say that wont get you in trouble your job should not be to speak professionally. There are plenty of professions that don’t require you to talk, and there are plenty of people that scan speak publicly without being offensive.

Clearly you do condone derogatory or sexist comments as you seem more offended by the people who are expressing condemnation for them than the comments themselves.

If you can’t handle people being called out for saying clearly sexist things that they clearly stated are sexist before saying them, then maybe you’re…

“me too” world

“Appearance wise you can send a message of being yourself, you don’t have to hide what you are (or be less feminine or whatever) to be a competitor and a force in the sport.”

Maybe just don’t lead all of your interactions with gender, and view people as people? You could have just said, “Yes, thank you.” Strike sir and ma’am from your vocabulary and you’ll find you have far fewer uncomfortable interactions. Languages are living things and once they stop changing, they die. It’s our…

It’s really not. People like this are so very desperate to paint themselves as victims because they can’t just shoot off their big mouths all day long that they will take the most innocuous situation like being gently corrected for using the wrong gender pronoun and cry about it online for the next 5 years. 

The only person I see crying is you? While others are saying it's not actually that hard to not be a sexist asshole while you're saying actually it is?

And even if it did happen, just say “hey sorry about that" and move on? It's literally not that hard to navigate the world treating people with dignity and respect.

As a father of girls, I find this sort of stuff painful to hear.

Ordering lunch the other day I responded “yes ma’am” to something and the person on the other side of the counter scowled at me and sharply informed me they identify as non binary and did not want to be called ma’am. Shouldn’t we preface everything we say as : Sorry, not wanting to offend you ???

What’s difficult about commentating on the same sport they (apparently) make a living commenting upon?

As others said, anything that starts with “not to be ____ but” should probably just not be said. I’ve been able to teach high school for going on 13 years now and I’ve never said anything that could be misinterpreted by anyone; it’s not that difficult. It should be common sense

It’s really not hard to do if you’re not massively stupid.

I vaguely remember a Peter Dinklage quote from GOT that was “whenever somebody says this, you should just ignore the part before the ‘but’. Everything before that doesn’t matter.”

“not to be sexist, but”

Depicted extracting value into his pants.

Yeah, that Herb-feller ain't exactly good people.

I’m just here to note (correctly) that Jim Spanfeller is a herb as well as a thin-skinned poopy baby. A thin-skinned farty poopy baby herb who doesn’t know not to mess with one of the site network’s strongest assets: its lively, active, frequently returning commentariat.