Note that I’m not just talking about the shitheads who cause forest fires or water contamination, with their bullshit. I’m talking about ANY of this dumb shit.
People used to have some goddamn dignity. If you wanted to keep the sex of the baby a secret, then you’d have both pink and blue cigars ready to hand out, after the birth. If you wanted the doctor to tell you, then that’s fine. You’d be talking to your friends and you’d go “yeah, the new kid’s gonna be a girl.”
The whole concept of an extra baby shower, just to hoot and holler about that shit is FUCKING INTOLERABLE.
As far as I’m concerned, it shows that these dipshits are only interested in their offspring as accessories to their own lives. They’re after the attention they can get, off the back of their children. They’re after the lifestyle of being a parent, so they can associate with other people who define themselves based on the social and material trappings of parenting. And they’re drooling after social media likes and views.
Anyone who participates in that shit is proving that they’re not interested in being the parent of a human being. They’re just making a doll to dress up and pose for pictures, starting before the child is even out of the womb.
To reiterate the title: if it was up to me, everyone who has ever had any kind of gender-reveal nonsense for their upcoming kid should have that child seized by the state, hopefully to be raised by real people, rather than soulless degenerates.
Not just unpopular, but also extremist. 👏 Congrats.
I was legitimately expecting the word “breeders” to come up with how much OP seems to hate anything to do with new parents celebrating their new parenthood.
It is annoying, but you’re way too extreme. Take their kids from them!? You are an actual crazy person. You should not be allowed near schools.
Agreed. It’s annoying for sure, but OP is insane. Even if it’s stupid, there’s absolutely nothing about it that indicates negligence of anywhere near the degree needed to justify forcibly removing a child from their parents.
Where is this attitude coming from? I really don’t get it. People have their kids taken away from them all the time. For a whole bunch of different reasons. It literally happens every day. I just want to add one more reason, and it’s a perfectly good one.
I’m genuinely confused by your extreme reaction.
Reasons like drug abuse, negligence, and celebrating in a way that you specifically don’t like? It fits right in with the other causes…
It’s not a good one and you are a crazy person.
Seek help
You are seriously unhinged
Listen to everyone here. You are not well. You need serious psychiatric help. Please stay away from all children and get professional help. You are not well.
This is a generalization on the same level as “all black people are…” and makes just as much sense. I think they’re stupid too, but did it because it’s what everyone but the parents wanted. I didn’t think the day was about me, but my parents and in-laws were excited about the whole thing, and it made them happy. But apparently that level of self absorption means my two children should be taken from me…
You need to re-examine your life.
Yes most are insufferable. That being said… who gives a shit if Debra invites some family over to pop a balloon and celebrate the growing of a family?
Seems kinda harsh that people wanting to celebrate life with their loved ones should have their child “seized by the state”
Debra can celebrate without being a narcissistic cunt. It’s really not that difficult. In fact, it’s EASIER to celebrate without being a narcissistic cunt. It’s literally less effort.
You just invite your friends over, have some drinks or whatever, and at some point you can be like “so anyway, the kid’s gonna be a girl/boy.”
This is not a steep-learning-curve concept. At all.
So making it a surprise to be revealed is the real tipping point of being an unfit parent?
Also, would you elaborate on how it’s being narcissistic?
It’s the grandiose, self-congratulatory, hyper-ceremonial pomp and circumstance of the situation.
It demonstrates a total lack of humility. So your baby-oven functions properly. Whoopee. It can produce either of the two standard flavors of human. Big fucking deal.
You know why so many traditions are ancient? Like, rooted in versions of themselves that are at LEAST centuries old, if not millennia? BECAUSE STARTING NEW TRADITIONS IS AN INTRINSICALLY EGOTISTICAL THING TO DO.
Following old traditions isn’t just something you do because you’re “supposed to.” When you follow a venerable tradition (as oppposed to a trendy fad), you are communicating that you understand your place. You’re just one human in a long chain of humans, just like yourself in every important respect. You’re affirming that you understand you’re truly not anything special, and neither are your offspring. And that’s A GOOD THING. Most people aren’t special. People have intrinsic value, as EQUALS, and it’s good when we recognize that.
Jumping onto a newly-made, bandwagon tradition like this one (especially one that is openly self-aggrandizing) indicates that you think in the opposite fashion. You think you’re the hottest of all the hot shit. You think you’re the main character.
If you think that way, you’re simply a bad person.
Man you are an AH. The baby oven functioning properly is not a guarentee. Its something a lot of people struggle with. I find you much more cringe than people wanting to throw an extra party. The only gender reveal party ive ever been to was for people with fertility issues. They had several miscarriages and that pregnancy meant the world to them. Seeing the gender on ultrasound was a milestone theyd never reached despite years of heartbreak.
So you’re insensitive and edgy, big whoop. You don’t need to post about it and pretend you are hot shit.
people wanting to throw an extra party
I understand people WANTING to throw an extra party. I understand people WANTING to pretend that they’re special snowflakes.
The point is, in order to be functional members of society, you need to RESTRAIN your selfish urges to scream about how super-duper you are, from your fucking rooftop.
You say I’m pretending that I’M hot shit? No. I’m not bragging about myself. I’m not saying I’m special. What I’m doing is trying to take annoying, self-absorbed shitheads down a few pegs. That is a necessary and useful function of society. That’s not a new fad. Reminding annoying people that they suck is possibly the longest-standing tradition that exists. I’m certain that language was literally invented, just so people could be told to stop acting the fool.
Last question; do you have children yourself?
You know why so many traditions are ancient? Like, rooted in versions of themselves that are at LEAST centuries old, if not millennia? BECAUSE STARTING NEW TRADITIONS IS AN INTRINSICALLY EGOTISTICAL THING TO DO.
What? No, traditions proliferate because of network effects and cultural momentum.
traditions proliferate because of network effects and cultural momentum
Yes, that’s the mechanism of their transmission. But their PURPOSE is to reaffirm cultural norms, chiefly ones related to humility and basic conformity to one’s society. Not the “I’m going to do literally everything exactly the same as everyone else” sort of conformity, mind you. Just the BASIC kind of conformity and humility. The kind that says “I’m no more valuable than everyone else in the community.”
Rushing to join a new tradition (especially one that hyper-celebrates one’s own reproduction) is an indication of the opposite impulse. You’re communicating that you’re better, more important, more valuable than your peers and your ancestors. That’s destructive and maladaptive. Not everyone can be the best. If everyone thinks they’re the most special, then nobody will want to do the equitable sharing and sacrificing that all societies have to do, in order to keep running.
This sounds like a Communist or Swedish attitude.
This opinion is, indeed, quite unpopular, but I don’t want to up vote and encourage people to harbor untreated mental illness like this.
I think gender reveals are fucking stupid…but I don’t know I subscribe to the idea that if you do one it makes you an unfit parent.
I also can’t fathom why anyone would envy the lifestyle of a parent. I’ve not slept properly in 6 years and I never get a moments peace 😭
Hmmmm yes I’m sure the government will raise those kids better 😅 Fr though besides this being a massive over-reaction, you’re having your own “throw the baby out with the bathwater” moment.
Well that actually seems like an unpopular opinion
OK that’s fucking stupid. I don’t like gender reveal parties either, but that’s a HUGE overreaction. People having different opinions about trivial things is not a reason to take their kids. WTF is wrong with you?
Upvote. Despite being in agreement. It’s obnoxiously stupid.
Get a hobby
Its not my thing but I can understand why people do it. I had friends who had a ton of fertility issues and several miscarriages. Finding out the gender on ultrasound is a milestone. They had never had a pregnancy last that long. It means they made it that far and all looked well. They wanted to celebrate as much as possible. They didn’t care what the gender was and that pregnancy meant the world to them. I don’t think she saw her son as an accessory at all. Who am I to get upset when people find an excuse to throw a party? There are some people who see their children as accessories but throwing an extra party isn’t the measure of that.
Lol, spoken like someone that specifically hates a certain couple. You compared it to a baby shower, but it’s a distinctly separate deal. Where a shower is for the parents, they get gifts and such to prepare them for a new child. A gender reveal party is more like a wedding, it’s a party for your friends and loved ones, more the soon-to-be grandparents. In the past where medical tech couldn’t accurately guess the sex of an unborn child, sure, people would get pink and blue stuff, but when that changed, finding out became a bit of a milestone in the process. Some people keep it low-key and just tell people who ask, others want to make a cute event of it. Your post says far more about you than the people you call “soulless degenerates”.
Ours was an awesome party. Nice for dad to have a baby event to participate in. Everyone is excited that you’re far enough along to determine sex - we know lots of people who lost pregnancies early.
Due to other senses noun “sex”, calling it a sex reveal party isn’t super accepted.
Listen very closely, Karen: nooooobody was excited to participate in your asinine ritual. You just think they were, because you’re one of the narcissists that I’m talking about. Everyone there (except for you) was bored and annoyed, the whole time. I guarantee it.
They’re just not narcissists, so they obey the social contract. They nodded and smiled, to be polite. Don’t misconstrue that as actual excitement.
Wow. How narcissistic is it to assume everyone thinks like you? You don’t speak for me. Maybe you got issues with your narcissistic parents but sadly they’ve rubbed off on you. You might want to look in the mirror before you continue being the very thing you claim to despise.
Well, that’s odd. Hunh… checks notes
Username does not check out. 🤷🏼♂️
It’s sort of aspirational, ya know what I mean?
