Gender reveal nonsense

[my3bears]

This whole make a big thing with a gender reveal - glitter, balloons, cakes with coloured centres etc

Then the parents act all surprised 😱

Isn't the biggest 'gender reveal' just to wait until they are born???

This really flipping irritates me and it's so American.

Just watched the LaBrant Family gender reveal (it came up on my timeline..why do I click on things that irritate me 😂) Boy it made my teeth itch!!

Aibu 🙄😂 anyone with me? Don't even get me started on baby showers....

American here.....
I refuse to watch anything else that couple does.I physically cringe when I watched so now I refuse!
I have always presumed he was gay so anyway 🤷

Gender reveals, baby showers, hen weekends, I can't be doing with them...I am a misery witch..

YANBU, it's all nonsense. Social media has just taken it up several notches though, people do not just do them but they take photos and are even uploading videos on youtube. I don't understand why anyone outside your close friends/family would care ? it's all very self absorbed and look at me.

I agree OP both gender reveals and baby showers are ridiculous

American here.....
I refuse to watch anything else that couple does.I physically cringe when I watched so now I refuse!

Even worse when you get invited to someone's house and they spring it on everyone. 'We'll be watching our proposal/wedding/wankiness'. They trap you into watching their self-indulgent wank.

I’m totally with you!! It’s awful and self obsessed

Also, every time I hear GENDER reveal I get a little bit more irritated. You can’t reveal the gender, you can reveal the SEX if you really want to

No-one is that interested in your baby.

One of my colleagues was pregnant, and I asked her, to make conversation, if she knew what she was having. She looked coy, simpered and said "We do know, but we're not telling anyone."

FFS. Like anyone cares!

It is embarrassing and cringeworthy the way the UK is copying all things American.
Look at Halowe'en now......what a circus that has become.
And proms....... you've completed your FREE education. Why the hell do you need more congratulations ? It's not enough for these spoiled rotten youngsters to do well in their exams any more and look forward to the next stage.....they now expect movie star treatment.
I've even heard of NURSERY proms.
I literally despair for this generation.

I think this whole gender reveal nonsense is bum-clenchingly self absorbed. I know the impending birth of a baby is joyous and heart-warming but making such an unmerciful fuss over what sex chromosomes a baby is going to have is just crass and unnecessary tbh.

There’s no way of telling the “gender” of a baby before they’re born, unless they can wear dresses or certain colours in the womb.

I've never been invited to one, or to a baby shower thankfully. I'm sure I'd have something much more important to do, such as cutting my toenails!

Being happy and sharing the joy with others in a celebratory fashion is American?!? What do the British do, wear black and mourn?

Why do any of you care. It’s just people enjoying and celebrating big things that are going on in their lives. Such a load of miserable begrudgers.

Never heard of such a thing! Or paying to learn your baby’s sex - is it because I’m in France?

It will ne another money making marketing ploy. Baby showers are an example. Companies don't seem to make enougjh from all the expensive must have equipment bought then the gifts bought once the baby has arrived they are now heavily involved in the baby shower and gender reveal following. People are so gullible! Yes, if they want to, parties can be had, next it will be a huge gathering for the baby's arrival, a must have celebration to mark the female having had a baby, of whatever sex.

My IL lost all interest in my pregnancy when they were told it was a girl. I didn't do a gender reveal but I suspect many lead to disaster and depression. Also sometimes they get it wrong so everyone is hyped up for the wrong gender child!

Who ARE those naff twats in the video?

I like watching gender reveal videos on YouTube, I'm fascinated that just regular people have so many people around them willing to come to a party to find out sex of the baby.

If I tried to organise something like that I don't think anyone would turn up.

I don't even understand how they work. The parents to be seem so surprised when they find out so don't they know? How is it arranged then does the doctor tell someone else then they arrange it?
I'm probably missing the glaringly obvious!!

Being happy and sharing the joy with others in a celebratory fashion is American?!? What do the British do, wear black and mourn?

Pretty much, yes!

If I tried to organise something like that I don't think anyone would turn up

Do many people actually have entire parties for it? I've never been invited to one. I have been to a baby shower where they did a game for everyone to guess the sex though, and then a bunch of balloons were popped and pink confetti came out. Didn't see any problem with that. It fits with the theme of a baby shower, little games, light-hearted fun, etc. I'd imagine incorporating the announcement into a baby shower is fairly common.

I’d have no problem going to one if good and drinks were provided. 😀

Yup! Tacky with capital T

I’m sorry if it’s been said previously, but this also irritates me beyond belief: IT’S A BOY OR A GIRL!! THOSE ARE YOUR OPTIONS!!!! Anything other than that probably ain’t going to be a good surprise.

And the whole ramping it up on social media (“they reveal the gender of their babies and the response will amaze you” - no it fucking won’t) makes me homicidal.

And to the sanctimonious contingent: I don’t care what other people do, but I have been off with sciatica for a week, so my tolerance is low.

Agreed OP, it’s just tacky BS. Also... baby showers! I find these so rediculously grabby! They might as well just send out invites that say...buy me shit for my kid! It’s rude and entitled!