Kate Matsuda · 7 answers · 9mo
Can you explain the habit and social function of "gender reveal parties" to me? All I can see is a bit of silly boasting tbh. I mean come on any fool can make a baby and there is a chance that the child has some sort of gender, yes? Do they open a big ballon filled with glitter and reveal at 3 months of age: Tadaaa!! It's genderfluid? Is this but rich bored peole having found a new reason to be proud? About what? I really do not get it? Are those people a bit sick in their head?
It started in the early '00s with some bloggers and social media personalities doing it, and then it somehow took off - I can't trace the exact source of when it became viral. Yeah, they are pretty ridiculous and they do enforce many gender stereotypes. Someone in my family had one and I felt a little uncomfortable there for that reason. It might be an extension of the whole "living vicariously through your child" that some parents do - if they had unfulfilled dreams growing up, maybe they hope to fulfill them through their kid. But that's just speculation.
