Reveal at party, reveals my ignorance

Yeah, I was thinking it was a co-ed gathering of flashers. Although that would be more of a genital reveal party.

NTTAWWT...

With the disaster they caused, they should name the baby Smokey or Pyro.

Mrs' Leftee's oldest son and D-I-L had one a couple years ago. Family from all sides attended. It's a great excuse for a party. I was in charge of the reveal, so I was literally the only one, going in, that knew. That was extra fun because the family history was in strong favor of a boy. It was pink powder that shot from the hand-cannons. You could have knocked folks over with a feather.

We didn't burn the place down though.

I first heard about these when my nieces all started doing them. The big thing is finding creative ways to reveal:
Slice a cake and colored M&M spill out
Hit a golf ball and it explodes in pink or blue
The fireworks thing
Rip off outer shirts to reveal pink or blue shirs underneath.
Others I can't recall

Honestly, I'm not chomping at the bit to know the gender of forthcoming offspring of my nieces and nephews. My level of interest is "Oh, a boy. OK" and then I'm done. I think it's a bit narcissistic to assume that people really care that much.

I think the younger folks that have grown up in the social media world seem to think that everyone should care about the minutia of their day to day lives. They want to share everything they do, every meal, every hike, every cool-aid spill, etc. that happens to them.
I call them the "Look at ME!" generation.

OTOH it was (in our limited experience) a very happy thing to wrap a party around. And everyone in attendance (ages 15 - 80+) really had a great time.

I had a great time being the keeper of the secret. Even the soon-to-be parents didn't know.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Part of it may be that, as keeper of the secret, you were central to the event.


Regardless, I'm fortunate that my kids aren't the type to do this kinda crap. I doubt I'll be inflicted with an invite to one that I'd feel guilty passing on. 

This feels like a "let's be like Real Housewives"moment -- I can't imagine any man, ever, said "let's have a gender reveal party."

I’ll tell you what was tough.

Same dad-to-be attended the baby shower... and invited all the guys in the family. At 57, it was the first of those I ever attended.

For the gift opening I sat outside the side door where I could see but also catch a nice breeze. All the guys kept sneaking out there with me. I told them I was charging the ladies $20 to get in and the men $20 to get out.

When I first saw the thread title, the phrase "gender-reveal party" conjured up images of a guy with a 3-day shadow, dressed only in a trench coat and a greasy, rumpled fedora skulking around in the bushes near an elementary schoolyard, waiting for the final bell to ring.

Yeah, I was invited to a baby shower one time. Now I was very involved in raising my kids: changing diapers, coaching soccer, softball, ran the boy scout pinewood event, was road crew for the show choir, went to all the dance recitals, music recitals, plays, etc but a baby shower is something the  women covet...not my thing.


The one I was invited to, the lades all sat in one room and did the usual baby shower thing. They guys sat in the garage and drank beer and watched football. So, not a bad thing, but only because we didn't really attend the shower, we were just under the same roof. 

I may be a "get off my lawn" old codger, but I figure life's too short for inane crap like gender reveal parties. Call and give my the vitals (gender, name) when they're born. I've got much better things to do than watch you slice a cake to reveal the gender of  your unborn child. I roll my eyes when it's just a 30 second video on facebook.  Honestly....it is what it is...I don't really care. I'll love it regardless. If it's a boy, we'll most likely do boy things together. If it's girl, I'll let her pretend to style my hair or serve tea if she wants (assuming stereotypical gender activities....I'll throw a football with the girl if that's what she's into). 

If anyone other than the parents (and perhaps grand parents if they're looking for a male to carry on the family name or something) are waiting with bated breath to find out the gender, they really need to get a life. 

FYI - we learned the gender of our kids when they were born.

Apparently the woman who popularized the idea on her blog 10 years ago regrets it, as the whole performative keeping up with the Joneses on social media has been behind the increases in bigger and more disasterous
explosions.

Sex reveal is a whole industry already.

LOL, Leftee!!

Just wondering, since my protruding ignoramus wasn't even aware of these "reveal" parties ... for kids these days, do we now have Barbie, Ken and Cousin Chaz, with its own gender-blurred fashion accessories?

And does Chaz, in turn, have black sheep relatives like G.I. Josephine, and characters from Boy Story, including (drum roll) "Woody"?

How about a "conception reveal" party, where the couple trots out a video of the night the happy event occurred.



The crowd cheers, makes ribald toasts, and signs up for the upcoming "delivery reveal" party. Circle of life and all that.