This is why you shouldn't throw a gender reveal party

[conuly]

Or if you insist, then instead of blowing things up you should stick with cake.

Comments

[spikethemuffin]

I actually think this would be the ONLY reason to throw a gender reveal party, unless the kid is 17 and you're throwing a corrigendum.

[chelseagirl]

I find this whole concept so offensive. Let's start trying to impose socially-constructed norms on the child before they're even born, yay?

[rhoda_rants]

I cannot stop face-palming over this story. Like, every fact is increasingly more ridiculous.

[swingandswirl]

Oh goodness.

(and I wish I could say I was surprised by the fellow's place of employment.)

[wolby]

Maybe this is peak gender reveal? Maybe?? Maybe????

[melannen]

Given that the first explicitly agender/genderfluid character I ever met in fiction occasionally identified as "a forest fire", that kid may have an awesome future ahead of them...

[ada_hoffmann]

I was rather pleased by this take on it: https://www.elle.com/culture/a23545212/what-to-expect-when-your-childs-gender-is-fire/

[larryhammer]

I really, really worry about the parents of the 1:2000 intersex kids. And for those kids, saddled with parents who expected sex to be rigidly binary.

I'd heard the fire (which was quite dramatic) was accidental, but not what exactly had started it. Oh boy.

[redsixwing]

Living in a wildfire-prone area, I'm pretty miffed with that selfish git and his foolish party plan.

...having an RP character/very important headfriend who is basically a wildfire deity, I am snickering at "MY GENDER IS FIRE." Yes, it is.

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[jesse_the_k]

...in addition to the wrongness of other-than-first-person gender revelations; and the foolishness of ignoring the fire hazard; that this creep can claim something he'd planned for, made purchases for, and invited people to witness was an accident makes steam come out of my eyes.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Haha, gender-reveal parties! Used to be, people had to wait till the birth announcement to find out what one had spawned. Ah, Modern Life!

Srsly, what's the point of having an extra party-occasion during pregnancy, when one can't even drink? Obviously it wouldn't work to combine the gender-reveal party and the baby shower, so there's probably no presents. I am not usually a big fan of blowing shit up, but I gotta say, it sounds like the kind of event that would simply cry out for something explosive to liven it up. Maybe they could put pink or blue food coloring in Diet 7-Up and drop Mentos in (https://youtu.be/h_2osOb2SMU) instead: wouldn't that be a charming tradition?