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Why gender reveal parties have spiraled out of control
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 9/14/20 | Jenna Drenten

Posted on 09/03/2023 5:16:59 PM PDT by DallasBiff

The increasingly extravagant celebrations — fueled by a quest for unique, viral stunts — reflect some of the new bizarre pressures parents face in our “attention economy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: gender; genderrevealparty
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To: DallasBiff

Why are people pissiing on our right to celebrate what every we want whenever we want.


21 posted on 09/03/2023 5:40:56 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: KarlInOhio

Hopefully your brother turned out better than a toy truck.


22 posted on 09/03/2023 5:41:53 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: DallasBiff

23 posted on 09/03/2023 5:47:56 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: DallasBiff

The noun form of reveal is revelation. Just stupid all the way around. Stupid
Grammar, stupid practice.


24 posted on 09/03/2023 5:50:53 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: CatOwner
My mother pushed out 3 boys, before me. I know now she wanted a girl, and she was disappointed I came out with a male appendage.

She treated me basically as a girl, nothing like make up but clothes and hair, and it pissed off 2 of my brothers , and they would beat the crap out if me.

25 posted on 09/03/2023 5:51:15 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

The author is a twit. See her background.


26 posted on 09/03/2023 5:52:53 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: DallasBiff

For our first, all and I mean all of the old wives said it would be a boy.

When she popped out I said “It’s a girl?” In great surprise.

All these people who find out what’s coming are idiots.


27 posted on 09/03/2023 5:58:56 PM PDT by cyclotic (The real problem with racism in America today is that demand far outstrips supply)
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To: Pikachu_Dad
You can have any party for any reason you like. That is your freedom.

I can think the reason you are having the party is stupid. That is my freedom.

Don't be a liberal. Respect both.

28 posted on 09/03/2023 5:59:58 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: CatOwner

Just think of all of the damage these parents are doing. “Revealing” a gender when the child will probably opt for some other gender later in life.
= = =

I’m thinking about the unborn child.

It is tested, and the gender revealed.

Then the unborn child changes its gender.

So parents to be need to be testing every few weeks, in case.


29 posted on 09/03/2023 6:05:07 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

We were told after sonograms that our first two daughters were boys. I guess it is good we didn’t have one of these parties.


30 posted on 09/03/2023 6:13:58 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: DallasBiff
It's the same with weddings, and women are almost solely fueling this stupid trend.
31 posted on 09/03/2023 6:21:04 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: DallasBiff

I personally think its bad luck to “celebrate” your baby before it is born alive and healthy. A baby shower is fine, but at some point you are just tempting fate.


32 posted on 09/03/2023 6:21:58 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: CatOwner

LOL. When I saw the title of the thread, my first thought was that “gender reveal” was indeed some teenager revealing they had a new gender (or genders).

Just shows how nuts things have become.


33 posted on 09/03/2023 6:24:01 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: libertylover

To sex a chicken, you grab their feet and hang them upside down. If they flail and carry on, it’s a male. Truth.


34 posted on 09/03/2023 6:26:10 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe!)
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To: DallasBiff
👍
35 posted on 09/03/2023 6:32:24 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: DallasBiff

I thought you could no longer assign gender at birth I’m so confused


36 posted on 09/03/2023 6:36:51 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: DallasBiff
Gender reveals are sometimes sneered at for reinforcing a gender binary,
Liberals opposes these for the above reason. But also invoke this for good measure:

We have the excesses of capitalism to thank for a rapidly changing climate that has worsened fires raging throughout the American West.

37 posted on 09/03/2023 6:38:57 PM PDT by daniel1212 (As a damned+destitute sinner turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves souls on His acct + b baptized 2 obey)
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To: DallasBiff

how can these people presume to know what gender their child is/will be in the minutes after it is born.

Certainly they have some kind of mental issues.


38 posted on 09/03/2023 6:47:21 PM PDT by algore
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39 posted on 09/03/2023 6:49:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

I though gen-z/millennials were all for “fluid” gender ID, so why have a party?

Still the weirdest generations in my lifetime.


40 posted on 09/03/2023 6:49:23 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes lwa, rebellion becomes duty)
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