Who knew gender reveal does not need to be an explosion.

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My sister is going to have a baby and me and my boyfriend went to their gender reveal party, and they just pulled a blue sword out of a cake...and nothing got burnt down lol and everyone still found out its going to be a baby boy. See it is possible to have a reasonable gender reveal without starting california or colorado on fire. Just use the sword in cake method lol.

I think sometimes the gender reveal events are just an excuse to have a major party before the baby gets born. There's too much emphases of kids gender & it's posible for the docs to be wrong. The docs told my parents I was going to be a girl & while I def do not conform to the male stereotype, I do have a wang.

How can you have a gender reveal before you've even asked the kid? It's really more of sex reveal at most.

The real Gender Reveal should take place when the child states the gender that they identify with.

I've always found gender reveal parties to be exceedingly dumb. Not only do they not actually reveal a child's gender but they demonstrate society's pointless obsession with gender. No matter what you reveal, either way people will cheer, you'll (hopefully) love the child just as much, so what does it actually accomplish? It shouldn't make any difference what your child's gender or sex is. And if the child ends up being trans they're really going to resent you for making such a big deal of assigning them a gender they don't even want.

Not all gender reveal parties have an explosion. But they are reinforcing gender stereotypes, and what if the baby doesn't want to be the gender they were born as later in life?

It's like those commercials for dolls and stuffed animals I used to see when I was a teenager, where they revealed the toy's gender by having its diaper turn pink or blue and they'd come with an outfit like a baseball uniform if it was a boy or a ballerina dress if it was a girl or something cringy like that.

What if the baby is born with deformed genitals?

There was no "gender reveal" party when my son was born, but the world didn't collapse. I don't think GRPs had been invented then. We just told people who wanted to know that he was a boy, though it was fairly obvious from his name. Turned out we were right about that. It's probably mostly an excuse to have a party. I don't know why people feel they need an excuse to get together though. Why not just ask people if they want to come over? Or have an "absolutely no reason at all" party? Don't tell the marketers - they'll start designing special cards and fireworks, and telling us we're antisocial and behind the door if we don't buy them.

What?... No blowing sh!t up? Where's the fun in that?
Strontium nitrate for girls, copper oxide for boys, barium nitrate for "who gives a crap?...it's a baby!"

I've never even heard of such a thing

I have never understood the rationale for having a Gender Reveal Party. It all seems rather silly. I guess that social pressure to do the in-thing is probably why many do them.

But it is not the ultimate in silliness. The following puzzling event was even sillier. Years ago during a cultural performance, I was sitting in a row behind what was clearly a number of members of the same family. During the intermission, I didn't feel like mingling so I just stayed in my seat. The family in the row ahead of me started passing around "baby pictures" and they were all going ooh and aah looking at them. So out of curiosity, I stood up a bit and looked over their shoulders. The "baby pictures" were the pictures from the pregnant woman's ultrasound!

So while they may be silly, it is certainly possible to get even sillier.

Unsurprisingly, when my niece held her gender reveal parties, I was not invited. That was fine with me since I had no interest in going.