Posted on 08/09/2019 3:35:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
The "gender reveal" has become a growing phenomenon in the world of social media. When expectant parents discover the gender of their unborn baby, they make a big announcement revealing the baby's sex, with cakes and balloons and even pyrotechnics.
It's a celebration of life, a desire to share the joyous news of the little boy or girl. Ah, but there's the rub. A boy or a girl. In today's perverted culture, this is wrong -- very wrong.
It's not surprising that in today's war on the "gender binary," major newspaper columnists appointed to write on "gender issues" (can you believe it) have written jeremiads attacking the very idea. Enter Monica Hesse of The Washington Post, whose July 31 article was headlined "Let's have a gender-reveal party that reveals gender is a construct."
In other words, stop doing "gender reveals," because gender isn't "assigned at birth." It's something for the child to decide later.
Hesse began by telling the tale of a mother named Jenna Karvunidis, who first made this trend viral by having a gender-reveal party with a pink cake. Now she regrets the whole thing. Karvunidis recently composed a follow-up post about her daughter Bianca -- now just "Bee" -- whose female gender she'd celebrated. "PLOT TWIST," she wrote on Facebook. "The world's first gender-reveal party baby is a girl who wears suits!"
Karvunidis included a family photo of "Bee," now wearing a white suit and an androgynous haircut. This regretful mother declared her fealty to the gender-crushing revolution: "Who cares what gender the baby is? I did at the time because we didn't live in 2019 and didn't know what we know now -- that assigning focus on gender at birth leaves out so much of their potential and talents that have nothing to do with what's between their legs."
Hesse was delighted by this confession, since she "was already buried in gender-reveal footage, planning to write a column about the perverse pleasure of watching the ones that fail."
She hates the gender-reveal people.
Hesse began the article by admitting she gleefully watched four times the video of a couple in Australia celebrating with blue exhaust fumes, but then the car burst into flames and was destroyed. She also enjoyed another video "in which a man attempts to hit a pink-powder-filled balloon off a golf tee, and instead thwacks his buddy in the groin. Or another, of a guy accidentally hitting a softball into his wife's face."
At The Washington Post, civility dies in schadenfreude.
Hesse hates how these parties are often "hypermasculine" events, with axes and chainsaws and footballs. Or there was the off-duty Border Patrol agent who caused a 47,000-acre forest fire after he "shot a blue-dust-filled target that exploded more thoroughly than planned."
The Post columnist angrily claimed that "the entire event is based on remarkable hubris: Parents try to concoct a memorable moment out of exhaust pipes, only to have nature inform them that there are no carefully concocted moments when it comes to raising children." Parents must learn today's lesson on "the limits of binary color choices." Your child may "choose" their gender as they grow, and parents must be expected to promote that choice, and whatever mind-numbing terminology follows.
The cultural deconstructionist left is always reminding us that yesterday's religiously informed "patriarchy" isn't the only orthodoxy that pushes a set of manners and expectations on the culture. They have toppled God, and put the solipsistic anarchy of gender politics in His place.
People need to live privately. TMI. We don’t wanna know.
Fine, then have sex reveal parties.
Sex is immutable.
What part are you referring to?
Did you read any of it?
I read the whole thing. What part? People, we don’t want you to put your whole life out there, what you ate, where you are on Saturday night, what your gender of your baby is. What part are you referring to?
Part of the culture wars.
Yet folks perceive that as boring.
I agree with you. I think these gender reveal parties are ridiculously self-indulgent and downright annoying. Of course I can’t stand them for reasons totally different from the author.
Meanwhile, life goes on as normal in Normal America. I had the privilege to visit a close friend in the maternity ward yesterday and hold her 16 hour old new baby girl. I hadn’t held a newborn in 28 years since our son was born. Her family was in the room to celebrate the birth and mom was in fine spirits and health. It was such a joyous occasion and a great thrill to be there to join in the blessed event.
A pox on all the progs that foist this crap on us..
In other words, stop doing “gender reveals,” because gender isn’t “assigned at birth.” It’s something for the child to decide later.
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We live in an age where we are now lectured by the mentally ill.
God help us.
I’m sorry I took my pants off at your gender-reveal party. I thought we were all participating. My bad.
I think they are hokey and stupid. And it is really weird how men are as into this stuff as females are.
Just fricking inform people online and have a regular baby shower.
Do you by any chance mean "honkey"?
Sex is not a construct. Their hatred for “man and woman He created them” is abnormal and insane. They need to be locked up for life.
Hokey:
Adjective slang, mainly US and Canadian
1.corny; sentimental
Showing what’s behind your zipper doesn’t actually reveal your gender. You have to choose from between 30 and 50 different possibilities, and declare it. The old binary “hardware” thing is dead.
Mental illness is a contagious disease. Liberals are carriers.
Homofascists are anti-Breeder.
down your throat, in your face
NOW was founded by a mentally institutionalized crazy dyke named Kate Millett who advocated for sex between women and underaged girls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Millett
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