Gender reveals

[limitededitionbarbie]

If gender is something that a person chooses then how are gender reveal parties a thing.

I'm probably really late to the party asking this but it's just dawned on me that it's not a gender reveal at all is it.

Is this just language being sabotaged again.

It's a sex reveal.

People can't cope with saying sex.

My dd is nine I don't remember these being a thing then

When we learned DS2 was a boy (8+ years ago), we had a "sex party".

Well we didn't really, we called all our friends to our casual Friday night happy hour drinks and called it a sex party.

We shouted "it's a boy" and that was the end of it. Drinks all round, bobs yer uncle.

If I had another baby I wouldn't find out the sex anyway because I much preferred finding out at the birth. That being said, I have nothing against "gender reveals" or finding out the sex and celebrating it with friends/family is grand (and I really love cake).

But yes, they really should be called sex parties for shits and giggles.

They certainly didn't used to be a thing because scans weren't good enough to tell the sex of the foetus reliably. I only knew the sex of my now 23yo DD ahead of time because I had an amnio. Not sure when the technology improved and then someone worked out it was something to commercialise I suppose.

Gender reveals were definitely a thing 9 years ago. But in any case it’s because people can’t bring themselves to say sex, as PP said. Gender reveals actually dying out now it seems, because you don’t know the kid’s gender and it’s very old fashioned and pink/blue. This seems to be a point both sides agree on?? Although of course the TRAs contradict themselves by thinking a man can slap on a dress and call themselves a woman. Confusing!

10 years ago, before <all this>, people did use the words sex and gender interchangeably and mainly they would substitute gender on forms etc because they were too polite and British to say ‘sex’. Now of course things have changed and gender is now a made up ‘feeling’.

I always find this explanation of 'gender' being used when 'sex' was meant mildly depressing.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg brought gales of laughter at her old law school Friday when she explained why she started using the term gender discrimination instead of sex discrimination.

My eldest daughter is 24 and they knew her sex. Not as accurately as they would do now though.