Hall of Shame: Gymnastics Commentary Edition

PORTLAND LIVE SHOW HALL OF SHAME

• Update about Monica Phelps and her banned, pedophile husband
• Sexually inappropriate comments about minors: Nope.
• Sexually inappropriate comments about adults: Double nope.
• Infantilizing adults and calling them little girls: Triple nope.
• Weight Shaming: The Monica Phelps Chapter
• Being weirdly obsessed with adoption: The Al Trautwig Chapter
• Tragic moments in college commentary
• Tragic moments in putting on accents

GYMCASTIC'S OFFICIAL BROADCAST DOs and DON'Ts

• 18 Dos and (mostly) Don'ts for gymnastics broadcasts concerning comparing gymnasts to dented cars, being the smile police, "Bela's girls," and talking about a gymnast's "personality."

BANNED WORDS AND PHRASES

• From "supple" to "weight" to "international look" to "ancient" to "4 inches wide," we have some words and phrases that are hereby banned from gymnastics commentary.
• The most important message for any commentator to reiterate before they begin broadcasts re smashing the patriarchy for the witches they couldn't burn.

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