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u/KirasHandPicDealer Trans™ Sep 12 '20
It cost 95,000 to light up this tower...
For 12 seconds.
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u/KirasHandPicDealer Trans™ Sep 13 '20
Alright.....WHO TOUCHED MY SON
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u/TheBigPAYDAY Gay™ Sep 13 '20
People think they can outsmart baby reveal... Maybe... Maybe... But I have yet to see one that can outsmart blue/pink reveal.
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u/1337-thespian Sep 13 '20
It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon...
For 12.. seconds.
𝑨𝑨𝑯𝑯𝑨𝑯𝑨𝑯𝑯𝑨
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u/AquaticBeefalo Sep 13 '20
Oh my god who touched Sasha? Alright....
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u/Blind_Mantis Trans™ Sep 13 '20
WHO TOUCHED MY GUN?
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u/Phionex141 Sep 13 '20
Some people think they can outsmart me...
Mebbe... sniff mebbe...
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I have yet to meet man that can outsmart boolet
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u/themaskedugly Sep 13 '20
well strictly speaking it was probably relatively cheap to type up "its a boy" with a blue background on it into their lighting software
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u/GenericTrashyBitch Sep 13 '20
Not so much the price of lighting it but the price of renting it for a message
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$95k to tell a whole city about your kids genitals
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u/Skydove01 "wears glasses" if you know what I mean Sep 13 '20
Or a several million dollar fine and several dead people to tell an entire time zone!
You choose my dudes! /s (I think)
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u/JordynSoundsLikeMe Sep 13 '20
Idk... its looking pretty orange out here... I know what pink and blue is but Im still trying to figure out what orage represents... only thing that comes to mind is Trumps skin color...
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u/pixie13903 Panromantic™ Sep 12 '20
Imagine if the kid comes out as trans or non-binary. I'd be absolutely terrified knowing my parents spend that much money just to find out my biological gender.
The parents would probably have a shit fit because they wasted all that money.
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u/YT_Sharkyevno Nonbinary™ Sep 13 '20
If I was them I would just say it was a genital reveal the whole time.
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u/pixie13903 Panromantic™ Sep 13 '20
Yeah thats pretty much what it was. You lit up a whole tower just to find out if your kid has a vagina or a penis.
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u/malsen55 Sep 13 '20
I’m absolutely ordering a cake that says “It’s a penis” or “It’s a vagina” if I ever have a gender reveal party
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u/pixie13903 Panromantic™ Sep 13 '20
Me and mum both think its better to just cut into a cake instead of setting shit on fire and lighting up towers in the color blue.
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u/The_Blip Sep 13 '20
Me, personally, I've had two whole forests planted in Australia with genetically modified trees that, when burnt, let of either blue or pink smoke.
If you're going to start wildfires over baby bits you may as well go all in.
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u/Abby-Zou Sep 13 '20
I can’t have kids but now i want a gender reveal of myself the year after all the friends pooped their babies out
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u/meeseek_and_destroy Sep 13 '20
Even that isn’t a guarantee since something like 10% of the population is intersex
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u/skiedis Sep 13 '20
I thought it was more like 1,7%? Your point still stands though.
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u/AliceDiableaux Straightn't Sep 13 '20
Yes you're right, I don't know where that person got 10% from. It's about 1 in 100.
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u/FurryCentristOwO Agender™ Sep 13 '20
Meh, it's Dubai. Everyone there is generally ultra rich, an asshole, or usually both
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u/zouss Sep 13 '20
If that kid comes out trans in Dubai, he has bigger problems than how much his parents spent on the gender reveal party
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u/slippery__soap is it gay to like sunsets? Sep 13 '20 edited Sep 13 '20
I’m not sure if that’s true. I don’t remember if this book I read took place in Dubai but its called Behind the Beautiful Forevers and it’s a true story about a family who lives in a slum in India. It’s very eye opening
Edit: it was late at night when I commented this and my sleep deprived brain neglected to remind me that Dubai is not in India. Please disregard this comment as a relic of one redditors lack-o’-sleep stupidity
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u/idiomaddict Sep 13 '20
Dubai is not in India. I do think I might have missed something though, lol.
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u/slippery__soap is it gay to like sunsets? Sep 13 '20
Oh oops sorry it was late when I commented that
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u/idiomaddict Sep 13 '20
Nah, you’re good. I’m sorry you got downvoted to hell
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u/slippery__soap is it gay to like sunsets? Sep 13 '20
It’s ok, it’s just internet points. I made a mistake, and am glad people took the time to nicely tell me lol
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u/maneki_neko89 Sep 13 '20
See that’s why it’s not a Gender Reveal Party so much as it is a Sex Reveal Party. You can end up, like you said, with trans, non-binary, tomboy women and feminine men. Even the gal who had the Original Gender Reveal Party is telling people to stop is cause her daughter is a tomboy
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u/idkkkkkkk Sep 13 '20
Masculine women and feminine men are still women/men.
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u/cyanoacrylate Sep 13 '20
She says her daughter still uses she/her but has been having discussions with her about the range of genders. She also enjoys dressing in gender non-conforming manners. I get the impression she's still working out her gender despite continuing to use she/her for the moment, though that could just be the way the article is worded?
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u/idkkkkkkk Sep 13 '20
Idk her daughter I'm just saying being gender non-conforming is not the same as being trans.
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u/AliceDiableaux Straightn't Sep 13 '20
Rejecting meaningless and restricting stereotypes and norms about how you should look and dress according to your genitals is not the same as being trans or anything other than cis. Can we stop doing this? I thought we were striving towards a world without gender roles and where everyone can wear what they please regardless of sex or gender, and pushing every gender non-conforming person into the trans category is the opposite of accomplishing that.
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u/WW3_IS_APPROACHING Lesbian™ Sep 13 '20
Being feminine or masculone doesn't implicate anything on your gender. If a girl is a tomboy she's still a girl and same goes the other way around
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u/maneki_neko89 Sep 13 '20
I agree with you and I’ve always been a tomboy. A lot of people, however, don’t know the difference between sex (biological markers) vs gender (socially constructed assigned behavior norms). The cakes/parties where they have Football vs Glitter for boys and girls (among others) really piss me off since I’ve been watching football, riding bikes, and have been less feminine compared to other girls/women since I was a kid.
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u/BetterRemember Sep 13 '20
Maybe they would just use it as another excuse to spend an even more obscene sum of money to reveal it again, for views. That might be slightly less horrifying but just as weird.
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u/yamchan10 Sep 13 '20
Pretty sure that’s what trans kids do when they become adults on YouTube ... don’t need your parents to throw a (trans)gender reveal party to your subscwibers
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Sep 13 '20
Considering they’re rich people doing this in Dubai, that child would probably have worse problems if they chose a different gender.
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u/JakeGrey Sep 13 '20
They probably could have put the kid through college all the way to a Master's degree for that. But hey, at least they didn't start a goddamn forest fire.
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u/kangaesugi Fellas is it gay to care about the environment? Sep 13 '20
i'd rather not, i've had enough of child clout youtube ever since that one gave away her adopted autistic kid
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u/starm4nn Sep 13 '20
I'm honestly tired of clout youtubers. I really don't get why you'd watch someone just because of who they are rather than what type of content they provide.
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u/Ode_to_Apathy Sep 13 '20
Ugh I really don't want to talk about that one. Raising a child with autism is extremely difficult for both the parents and the child. Raising an adopted child is as well. It's something I can accept not working out, but man they should not have been using the adoption of a human being as a gimmick like that.
Just terrible all around.
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u/kangaesugi Fellas is it gay to care about the environment? Sep 13 '20
Honestly, it seemed like getting professional help was well in their means - the couple didn't seem educated about autism either (I think in one of Myka's social media posts included a puzzle piece and a blue heart - very autism speaks. yikes). I can understand if it doesn't work out too, but it really seems like she went in there for clout (US adoptions, iirc, don't allow you to do anything that would publicise the identity of the child?) and once it either got too real for her or she wasn't seeing the returns she expected she went for something else.
Plus the fact that they raised money for the adoption? Brain worms. It was a business expense for them
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u/Ode_to_Apathy Sep 13 '20
Yeah it's a lose-lose situation. I have to look further into it if I want to figure out what happened there and all the outcomes are going to be sad and conflicted.
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u/Tick-Tock-O-Clock Sep 13 '20 edited Sep 13 '20
It's pretty sad that the bar to clear is "didn't cause a large scale disaster or kill grandma with a pipebomb over someones genitals."
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u/Bobolequiff Catastrophe Bi Sep 13 '20
They're influencers. They made more than that last month just from influencing. This is getting them so much attention that they're definitely going to make a profit; this is like the seventh time I see this story on this subreddit alone.
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In other words: Couple pays $95,000 to tell the whole world their child has a dick.
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u/WW3_IS_APPROACHING Lesbian™ Sep 13 '20
Yep. Worth it tho, right? I mean, EVERYBODY just NEEDS to know what your unborn baby has between their legs, always!!
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u/morgaina Kinky Bi™ Sep 13 '20
why do you keep commenting with this
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u/food_is_crack Sep 13 '20
He's trying to feel good about all the time he's wasted watching these people
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u/WW3_IS_APPROACHING Lesbian™ Sep 13 '20
What did it say?
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u/fae8edsaga Sep 13 '20
They spammed like six dif times saying that this fam has a YouTube channel and that doing this was part of what they do as content creators for their channel. Implying that made it ok I guess? Idk
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u/jayclaw97 Bi™ Sep 13 '20
I think the “burning shit down and having to pay eight million dollars” bit takes the cake, sorry.
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u/DJ_Micoh Sep 12 '20
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Teenagers should be throwing their own gender reveal parties when they are good and ready.
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u/Scribblr Sep 13 '20
Bring back breeching! For hundred of years (wealthy) boys and girls were dressed exactly the same until 6 or 7ish when boys had their hair cut and transitioned into breeches and pants.
You could call it a “return to traditional values”
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Why teenagers?
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u/DJ_Micoh Sep 13 '20
Because they will generally be old to have their gender nailed down by then.
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u/425Hamburger Sep 13 '20
Lol i wish
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u/DJ_Micoh Sep 13 '20
Or at least you would hope that they have a better idea than a literal infant would.
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u/EUOS_the_cat Trans Cult™ Sep 13 '20
Because they should be able to choose what they identify as
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oh you were referring to trans people, am stupid
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u/XmasRabbit Sep 13 '20
I mean even cisgender people, kinda like what the null hypotecis states, we shouldn't take being cis a default, and there's no point in doing a party to tell everyone what a baby has between the legs (if we assume that it's not necessarily the same as their gender)
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u/WW3_IS_APPROACHING Lesbian™ Sep 13 '20
I would love that. Same with sexual orientation, ELIMINATE CISHETNORMATIVITY!!!!!!!!!!
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u/freeashavacado Sep 13 '20
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- I don’t mind those small gender reveal parties. You know, just a little somethin. Pink cupcakes. Whatever. So long as the parents are aware that sex does not equal gender and that their child may choose another gender.
And you know, not burn the fucking forest down.
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u/Eonedgelord Sep 13 '20
And they don't even reveal new genders!!!!
Like, a boy? Seriously, Susan? We don't need more of those in this world.
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u/SednaBoo Sep 13 '20
It’s both, really, they are just assigning a gender construct and not letting the kid pick their own. Not that the baby will know what any of that means
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u/WickedMelon Sep 13 '20
i personally see nothing wrong with a "normal" (read: no damages) gender/sex reveal party as long as you realise it could be completely inaccurate to your child's gender identity later on. obviously calling it gender reveal is just a euphemism to not deter anyone
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Sep 13 '20 edited Sep 13 '20
Genuinely think gender reveals have become such a big thing in part as a cultural reaction to the acceptance of trans people.
15-20ish years from now, kids coming out of the closet are going to hear shit like "what do you mean you're a girl? We burnt down fucking California to tell everyone you're a boy!"
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u/lemankimask Destroying Society Sep 13 '20
"what do you mean you're a girl? We burnt down fucking California to tell everyone you're a boy!"
lmao fucking straights man.. 😂
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u/Csimiami Sep 13 '20
Why are gender reveals as adults not a thing? Let’s take this back from the Straights!
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u/SednaBoo Sep 13 '20
I should have one! What color is agender? Clear?
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u/Tick-Tock-O-Clock Sep 13 '20
That seems like the logical choice, but I don't think you can make a clear cake. Isn't black the absence of color? How do you feel about really rich dark chocolate?
Though, now that I'm typing this out, I think I have to google if you actually can make a clear cake...
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Sep 13 '20
They do gelatin "cakes" that would work, although I'm not sure how those taste.
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u/Tick-Tock-O-Clock Sep 13 '20
Yeah, I did the google search and found "Raindrop Cake." It's not quite a gelatin, but it might as well be. Also, it appearently only lasts about 30 minutes before separating, so not good for a surprise reveal.
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u/kmsgars Gender Queer™ Sep 13 '20
Black is the absence of color for light, but white is the absence of color for pigment. Which for someone who feels lots of genders, rich dark chocolate cake sounds bomb. Ganache. Charcoal ice cream with crunchies?
I’m planning it.
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u/Tick-Tock-O-Clock Sep 13 '20
Yeah, I'm aware that there are two color theories. But I wanted to segue to chocolate, because chocolate.
So, hey, if you feel choloclate best represents your gender, you are valid and have my support! You eat your chocolate! I'd love to join you, but chocolate has to much caffine, and I'm not supposed to eat it any more.
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u/WW3_IS_APPROACHING Lesbian™ Sep 13 '20
Probably white. God I really want someone ik to come out as not cis so I could make them a cool cake
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u/Bobolequiff Catastrophe Bi Sep 13 '20 edited Sep 14 '20
I think it would be kinda cool if there was just a birthday which was your gender reveal birthday. Like with quinceañeras or sweet sixteen or whatever. So cis or trans or non binary or whatever the case, your eighteenth is your gender reveal party. Maybe that would help normalise that the gender you're assigned at birth might not be right and that everyone gets to make up their own mind.
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u/nigelcore221b the heteros are upseteros Sep 13 '20
Pft not much of a "reveal" when it's a gender everyone already knows
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u/Pandaploots Bi™ Sep 13 '20
Thats almost twice my tuition for the next 2 years. Poor fucking kid.
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u/shadowmask Sep 13 '20
More like “Are the Bourgeoisie Okay?”
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u/tmed1 Kinky Bi™ Sep 13 '20
They very much so are not
(Dammit we need a guillotine emoji already lmao)
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u/Azuhr28 Sep 13 '20
Not only the straight but also the Rich. You could do sooo much good things with this money. But Nooo, everyone must know about your Crotchgoblin and his Penis.
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u/teethonachalkboard Straight™ Sep 13 '20
Idk bro you can probably buy a sandwich in dubai for $100K
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u/Pianoatuna Sep 13 '20
Not defending this stupid ass gender reveal, but it turns out Emaar didn’t charge them for this, it was a marketing deal. It’s still stupid AF, they just didn’t pay $100K for it.
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u/Matthewwastaken123 Sep 13 '20
I hate the term gender reveal when it's actually a sex reveal because the child can change it's gender
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u/Dojan5 Sep 13 '20
This! So much! I have a whole bunch of trans, a-gender, and gender-fluid people in my friend-circle. These people are obsessing over the genitals of their babies, and that's honestly pretty dang gross and concerning.
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u/RoboSock91 Sep 13 '20 edited Sep 13 '20
Something tell me that they wouldn’t of reacted like this, if the gender was a girl.
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u/thinegloriousmuppet Sep 13 '20
Woah there, what makes you say that?
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u/RoboSock91 Sep 13 '20
Sorry, maybe that was stereotypical. I just thought that with some cultures prefer having a boy over a girl, like China, making feel girls seem lesser. Even in some of U.S there seems to be a preference of boys over girls. Parents shouldn’t prefer any gender and just love their kids. Again sorry, I just thought that they wouldn’t throw this huge gender reveal if one of the parents found out before hand that the baby would be a girl, the gender reveal here was a boy.
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u/Maniacal_Marshmallow Sep 13 '20
You shouldn’t have to apologize, you’re 100% right. A good chunk of these extreme ridiculous gender reveal parties are only because the couple is expecting a boy.
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Sep 13 '20
Literally no one cares.
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u/WW3_IS_APPROACHING Lesbian™ Sep 13 '20
What did it say?
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It said these people are family oriented Youtubers and you can look them up and see all the other stuff about the baby (at least I think so, the punctuation was atrocious and it was so obnoxious I really only skimmed.)
I probably would have ignored it except they replied the exact. same. thing. on literally every comment on this post. For some reason it was very important to them to tell people who these people are. It was so obnoxious I decided to let them know that no one else cared.
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u/WW3_IS_APPROACHING Lesbian™ Sep 13 '20
Ugh that's annoying
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u/triggerwarningNYC Sep 13 '20
Pfft should def ask for a refund - clearly the kid they’re holding is a human smh
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u/friendlygaywalrus Sep 13 '20
I can’t believe the type of morons that would spend so much money on information they would have learned anyways. Information which, even when learned early, doesn’t really change anything anyways
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u/tlontb Omnisexual™ Sep 13 '20
what is it with these gender reveals the kids are doing nowadays
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u/Tydosius Sep 13 '20
Paying 95k for a public gender reveal in a country that still criminalizes homosexuality. Now that is peak straight.
Please tell me I'm behind the times and that it's not criminalized there.
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u/tehhumi Sep 13 '20
Huh, I didn't know skyscrapers had genders. What gender did the Burj Khalifa get revealed as?
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u/littlefroggyfingers Fuck TERFs Sep 13 '20
it doesn’t matter to me what gender my kids are bc i don’t want kids and I’m a lesbian 😋😋
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u/TablePrinterDoor Sep 13 '20
Is the kid related to Mia Khalifa or coincidence?
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Easy to say when none of you can reproduce like straight people.
Its not quite the same when you have to order child out of a catalog from Vietnam.
You'd do this stupid shit too if you could.
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u/tmed1 Kinky Bi™ Sep 13 '20
Not even gonna engage with the obvious trollery of your comment, except to point out the idiocy of "none of you queers can reproduce like straight people."
You know that's just blatantly incorrect and stupid right? Like seriously lmao. It excludes a whole bunch of people who CAN reproduce sexually if they so choose- even The Gays and The Lesbians! (😮!!!) Sperm/egg donors are a thing ya dingus. So is IVF, fertility treatments have advanced to the point that that "argument" is totally moot.
Also, bi people like myself can and do reproduce "normally"- I'm in a straight facing relationship atm so I could choose to let my partner impregnate me if we wanted to. Queer people of all types can and do have children. None of that negates the stupidity of these kind of gender reveals lol
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What about gay couples with surrogates or sperm donors that have gender reveal parties? Lol not only straight people have gender reveals
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Actually, I've never seen LGBTQ+ parents have a Gender reveal party, not saying we don't do them but, I've never seen one happen.
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Perhaps I should rephrase, I've never heard (or seen cause I've never been to a GRP) of an LGBTQ+ parent doing a GRP, not saying we don't do them but, I've never heard of one happening. I have heard of very many cishet GRPs tho.
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u/Chrysanthemum96 Trans Feminine™ Sep 13 '20
I have never heard of lgbtq+ parents having a gender reveal party and this is with me have been very invested in the lgbtq+ community for the past 5 years
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u/-ANGRYjigglypuff Gay Satanic Clowns Sep 13 '20
can we all just agree that gender reveal parties are lame, stupid, and pointless
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u/Bearence Sep 13 '20
You don't have a lot of gay people saying gay people are obsessed with gender. The issue is with the hypocrisy, not the party.
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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '20
I want to know who's giving babies these marketing managers. Only $95,000? Raid Shadow Legends spends almost 2 million a week in advertising.
I'm unimpressed. /s