Why does MN hate baby showers?

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I’m curious.

I’ve read many comments about how gross and tacky they are. I don’t really get the big deal?

Also gender reveals.

math I am happy to attend others baby showers because I assume they aren't concerned about bad luck vibes. I accept that is my own superstition.
I am lucky that my dd survived her birth but I am conscious that it isn't as simple as can be made out. It confirmed my societal suspicion that celebrating before the event was a risky activity.
But I know that is just an unlucky combination of the two issues and not a statistical reality for most.
As I said previously I like American baby showers. I have found them to be positive events but I would never have one myself.

The fact that the British have managed to grasp the wrong end of the stick so comprehensively, and then run with it, says far more about the British than about the American baby shower.

This^

My colleague who is from Africa was telling me they have wedding showers where you buy the bride to be gifts as well as the actual wedding gifts for the couple
Let's hope that doesn't catch on here

They're twee. And you can't drink without feeling guilty.

America and Americans are not to blame for the rudeness, grabbiness, charging of guests and all the other elements that would be completely unthinkable in the US.

This.

I'm not knocking Americans, want to make that clear, but I'm not keen on a lot of their traditions when imported to the UK.

Trick or Treating, proms, push presents and baby showers all fall into that category for me.

I don't know if gender reveals are a US thing, probably not, but I find them really cringeworthy. As with other posters, I find the whole "me me me" thing tedious. Same with OTT weddings.

One of the things I can find frustrating is the belief that American traditions sprung up straight from American soil where as the reality is that many of them have their origins in European settlers' traditions.
So for example Halloween and prom dances were both traditions with long histories where I grew up in the UK and not American imports.
Americans adapted and changed some of the traditions and in turn the original countries accepted the newer traditions and further adapted them.
This is the perfectly normal way of cultural adaptations, it has enabled archaeologists to look at the spread and intermingling of cultures over many thousands of years.

Point taken @dreichuplands but the form they take nowadays seems more in line with how they have been adapted in the US. I have no beef with Americans doing their thing in their way in their country, none at all. I just find these things don't travel well.