That’s a good point, and I didn’t address it that way and you should have mentioned it.
Even born infants won’t remember this event. What this reveals though, is a parent that is severely screwed up, even contemplating this sort of thing at that time in their child’s existence.
It means this kid will be watched every second for some tell-tale sign that they were born cross-gender.
Can you imagine the Leftist dogma this kid will have to dodge to turn out at all sane.
This can’t turn out well.
Well, this one didn’t turn out well. I did some poking around but couldn’t find any information about the perps or possible motives, only journo-garble such as, “The police aren’t certain whether the two men with guns are suspects.” There was a mention that drug-dealing has become a big problem in the area in recent years. Various possibilities remain, including that the shooters included the now-dead gender-reveal baby’s father.
Regarding the concept of “gender-reveal” party, it seems to be an evolution of the “baby-shower.” I had baby showers for my first child (hosted by my co-workers) and my 10th (hosted by my church choir). Other than that, people just gave us things, if they wanted to, after the babies were born. We did not know the sex of our first before she was born, but we did with the 10th, although the name wasn’t decided until we were on the way to the hospital for the delivery.
“I want to call her Asuncion,” I said.
“We’re not Mexican,” my husband replied.
“Doesn’t matter.”
“I thought you liked Amelia.”
“Kathleen, after Maureen O’Hara and my aunt.”
“Fine, Kathleen.”
What the hell are you talking about?
I had a gender reveal with my middle child. We toon the ultrasound results in a sealed envelope to a bakery who then made us a beautiful cake filled with pink icing. We had no idea it was a girl. The cake was covered in fondant and said “twinkle twinkle little star how we wonder what you are”. My parents & in-laws were there and we face timed the aunts and uncles to be. Then my husband and I used our cake cutter from our wedding to cut into the cake which revealed pink icing. My daughter is 14 months old and isnannormal little girl. Why on earth would a party such as this damage her in some way??