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WTF is it with these gender reveal parties?
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Climber
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Eldritch
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:laughing I mean, at a certain point we can just change this to a thread about dumb shit Americans do to blow shit up and light shit on fire, we do it an awful lot.
'Merica.
OldMadBrit
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Back in my day, it was taboo to even give your kid a name until it had survived its first 2 years....
..... how would one reveal a "they"?
Now we are all "woke" shouldn't we just give the kid a number and let it select its own gender appropriate name when it decides to ?
..... how would one reveal a "they"?
Now we are all "woke" shouldn't we just give the kid a number and let it select its own gender appropriate name when it decides to ?
HappyHighwayman
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Wrongful death lawsuit in 3...2...
HappyHighwayman
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I've been to one. Not that many of my friends here have kids and nobody is forcing anyone to attend. It's like anything else.
Well that's the whole problem with gender reveal parties is that it's the parents revealing the gender when they don't know the identity of their own child yet - because the child doesn't understand their own identity yet.
Ideally the child should decide what kind of identity reveal they want to have - if they want to have one at all. After, of course, they decide what gender they identify as.
If you're gonna do one, they should look something like this. They don't have to be enby, but it should be a celebration of the kid's own identity, not whatever identity the parents project onto them.
https://www.out.com/transgender/2020/7/17/mother-hosts-gender-reveal-17-year-old-nonbinary-child
I mean, look at how goddamn happy that kid is.
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Eldritch
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It is more a language change thingy. They are not Gender Reveal Parties, they are Sex Reveal parties.
Its fucking weird how much parents want their friends to think about the genitals of their unborn child.
"8 months ago we fucked. We made a human and that human has a vagina"
Joshman
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I think that's boiling sex down to just genitals, which I'd argue is an oversimplification of biology.
Okay, how's this:
"Our child has a vagina, a uterus, and two ovaries. Someday they will have a pair of tits and a mildly different bone structure"
Happy?
Also: Way to miss the entire point.
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Eldritch
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Yeah, I don't understands this party, but the Mexican part of my family LOVES THIS SHIT. LOVES IT. Everytime my cousin Jeffe is having another baby, there is a series of like 6 parties or some shit that he does.
Now that he finally had a boy so the family name can continue, he says he is going to stop having kids though. :laughing
scootergmc
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Well that's the whole problem with gender reveal parties is that it's the parents revealing the gender when they don't know the identity of their own child yet - because the child doesn't understand their own identity yet.
Ideally the child should decide what kind of identity reveal they want to have - if they want to have one at all. After, of course, they decide what gender they identify as.
If you're gonna do one, they should look something like this. They don't have to be enby, but it should be a celebration of the kid's own identity, not whatever identity the parents project onto them.
https://www.out.com/transgender/2020/7/17/mother-hosts-gender-reveal-17-year-old-nonbinary-child
I mean, look at how goddamn happy that kid is.
Now that's the dumbest thing I've seen in this thread. Bayou BBQ redneck almost had it, but you threw down the trump card. 'Murica.
HappyHighwayman
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I can't find the video but there was a fake gender reveal where the smoke was green or something and they collapsed shouting at the sky "Why? Why?! No!" as if they were giving birth to the anti-christ
Eldritch
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Noooooo, the last Gender you want to see at your reveal party is Cthulu.
Joshman
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The point wasn't missed....I was making a larger point that parents are celebrating something bigger and more significant than genitals (as well as the additional things you mentioned)
edit: side note to be clear, I think the reveal parties are silly but I get why parents do it.
edit, edit: Perhaps I need to be more clear about my larger point. Parents celebrating the sex of their child implies far more than societal gender roles which. The celebrations are based in born biological differences. Those differences should be celebrated as they are incredible. I have no issue if someone chooses to identify differently later, but disparaging all parents from being excited about the sex of their child seems misplaced. And yes, I get the difference between sex and gender but that's a different discussion than this.
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The fuck you talking about?