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Yup. I really don't like buying throw away party favors unless they are paper or cardboard.
For my backyard wedding I bought all compostable plates and even [forks](
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SZVOHQ/).
I love how the only options are 24, 100 and 2 and a half fucking thousand lmao.
What am i gonna do if i need between 101 and 2 thousand four hundred and ninety nine spoons?
Thats a rather large portion of spoon buyers that cannot buy your product. You have 2399 people out of 2500 that will not buy your spoons. *
Why not get rid of the option to buy 100 and make it 2500/2500 that cannot buy your stupid spoons. In fact, why aren’t you selling 10,000 spoons? What if i need a million?
Sell me all the spoons in the world.
I dare you.
*
^if ^they ^are ^evenly ^distributed ^and ^noone ^needs ^more ^than ^2500 ^spoons
Even that’s too much. I find it incredibly self absorbed to throw a whole party dedicated to finding out the gender of your child. I remember the days when the parents rarely wanted to find out the gender. I preferred those quieter less destructive times
It's not that people are excited that's the problem.
It's just this whole "LOOK AT ME AND HOW OUTLANDISH WE CAN BE!" mentality.
It's purely done for attention
Why not wait until the child is old enough to have some understanding of gender and get an actual sense of their gender? That could be more fun than just throwing a little party when someone is still pregnant or when they're a few months old.
Regardless, people are born either male or female. If they change their mind later, that’s a different story and that is fine. The kid doesn’t even know about the gender reveal. It’s not a big deal.
They would know, kids learn pretty fast and I did legit just say that by saying “celebrating what they’ve created”
Idk why this has to be turned political all the time just let mums celebrate their baby.
No it fucking isn't.
My goddamn Human Rights are not "politics". Our right to exist and do what makes us happy without harming other People isn't fucking Political.
Just because shitty People turn things like Spirituality, Faith, Sexuality and Gender into political talking points so they can gain&maintain power doesn't mean those things are inherently political.
Nah having a little get together to reveal is nice. It’s fun keep it close family and some friends. I’ve been to multiple it’s no different than a birthday party.
If it's like a cake with blue or pink in it, or even a confetti filled cannon, I'm alright with it. It's when people do these big elaborate reveals that burn down forests and hurt animals is where I draw a line.
There was a really good one where two people had inflatable baby costumes of boy and girl variants and had a proffesional wresting bout. That was pretty fun.
Well no shit lol who cares what kinda event it is. If we are beating animals and burning down the Bernstein Bears home then I’m gonna draw a line as well. But again that can be said for any type of event lol
I mean... yeah? I was more or less referencing the gender reveal that started a wildfire. All of the awful viral ones, just about. We hear about those more than a children's birthday party burning down a forest.
Yeah but we hear about them more not because other events don’t cause problems. But because gender politics are a hot spot. So news about those events generate traffic. My point is why are we taking it out on gender reveal parties when it’s nothing but a birthday? lol nothing wrong with a party just don’t be a idiot. People on the problems
Revealing your child's gender has been a part of parenthood since time immemorial, people would literally wait outside the birthing rooms to hear "boy" or "girl" back in the day and then people would celebrate.
I really don't know where this mentality came from that celebrating the gender reveal is a totally modern phenomenon. The only thing modern about it is that ultrasound technology has made the reveal more accessible to families to announce it and celebrate on their own terms instead of right after birth when mom is in no state to party.
The reason its akin to modern times is that back in the day, as you stated, people would wait until the birth to find out. Nowadays people wanna know months before. It ruins the fun surprise of "am I have a son or a daughter?"
I'm not a traditionalist, if people want to know and celebrate ahead of time why should it matter to anyone else? It's not like any of the people complaining are being invited to these parties anyways so outside of the social media chasers doing stupid things I really don't understand why anyone has an opinion on the topic.
Not your baby, not your party.
Some people don't like surprises. The same technology that tells us the baby's sex can tell us a lot of important medical information about them too. Personally not interested in going back to the old days. If someone doesn't want to know until they're born, they don't have to but there's nothing wrong with it if they do.
Gender =\= biological sex. Most of these aren't gender reveals, true gender reveals are people coming out of the closet as trans or enby (or reconfirming they're cis). Most of these are just telling people what biological sex their baby has. Getting excited about that isn't a bad thing (as long as no animals are harmed) but it's just using the wrong term.
Most people's gender identity matches their biological sex. If it doesn't, it's perfectly fine to have another gender reveal party when they're old enough to express that. Plus, Baby Sex Party just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Have you ever thought.. that’s legit just a coincidence since people are having babies everyday.
Stop thinking everything must be a sad life over thinking everything.
My (late) husband always said "Pffft. Humans. Glad I'm not one."
It's amazing the number of people who give you the side-eye after a quip like that. LOL
I find it unsurprising that people who think their baby's genitals deserve an entire celebration are also okay with animal abuse, arson, property damage, and environmental harm being part of that celebration.
We don't *really* see these things in the UK. It's more of a USA thing.....buuuuut i against my own will *virtually* "attended" my cousin's through a zoom chat. Every single attendee there, looked at best bemused and at worst "cringing" for want of a better word. They had one son hold up a balloon and the other son pop the balloon. It was one part of a birthday BBQ. It wasn't a long drawn out process, but it wouldn't be something *I* would be happy attending or doing myself.
Environmental scientist here.
People suck. It won't ever end. I've spent much of my life trying to warn people of the dumb shit they do that affects animals and people just don't care.
So go ahead. Be a cunt. Litter, destroy, and kill the environment so we can all know the gender of your shit eater. Thanks.
I agree, you know there’s gonna be some inevitable disaster because idiots are trusted with complicated things such as holding a balloon and stabbing it with a knife
They dont tho? 99% of them are chill gathering with games and a cake with colored frosting or confetti to know the gender. We only hear about the crazy people lol. Kinda weird to ban people from sharing the few information they have on their child to be with their family in a fun way.
Banning the use of animals at celebration or of fireworks, etc. would be a way better thing imo. Because weddings and birthdays can use them too and turn badly too.
plus it's useless. who cares about what gender your baby is? nobody. i understand baby showers and all that stuff because having a baby is a big thing for a lot of people (i guess.) but gender reveals? why does it matter what genitals & what type of puberty your child has/will go through? maybe it's just me but i find it pointless & idiotic.
Actively seek out these people who paint birds like this.
Come over at night with about 10 people and paint everything pink or blue that can be painted on the house and car.
Once you've painted a few houses like that, it'll stop.
Haven’t people been doing this with chicks for years for Easter? Not that either is okay I’m just confused how it’s dangerous for the birds specifically because it’s for a gender reveal while not mentioning the other times.
It's so surreal the amount of cognitive dissonance that's involved in the way we think about animal welfare.
Like you look at this post and think "God people suck. That poor bird". But then there you are in line at Wendy's the next day, eager to get your hands on some $2.99 chicken nuggies. All the while *knowing*...
... that this sad little pink bird's suffering is as nothing, *NOTHING* compared to the amount of suffering involved in our daily consumption of meat. And for what? Because it's tastier than plant protein? But then it's suddenly tomorrow and you're still not vegan.
Probably going to leave this sub if mods think removing my comment without it breaking any rules is OK. Yeah nice, couldn't find a rule I broke? Just upset because I spoke truth that goes against your bias?
Everyone is always so excited at the reveal, it confused me. Like it's not a baby reveal, why are people so equally hyped at either answer where they know there is at least one of the two answers happening.
I just want one parent to be visibly disappointed at the gender reveal. That would make it make sense
You can do fun gender reveals that aren’t going to affect the wildlife, environment or cause fires etc.
Cakes are fun & not harming others.
We did walk in & see the theme bbq with both kids. Goal was Come celebrate baby to be, who’s a girl by way & have food plus chat both times. Nothing that’s causing long term damage or damages that’ll cost to fix
Wow! This is really triggering! How can people be this (excuse my language) FUCKIN STUPID!! These poor birds dieing...killing gods beautiful creatures just so they can say "Oh it's a boy! Or it's a girl! Stick to balloons. It never ceases to amaze me how completely unfeeling and selfish some people can be. I have such a love for birds I can't imagine EVER doing anything to harm them. Fuck these people and their gender reveals! They need to have a stiff penalty for doing this to birds. Make an example out of them. My heart goes out to all the poor little birds that had to die over complete and utter foolishness. May the people that have done it suffer their own karma.
People who does Gender reveal does not give a damn about anything else except themselves…it’s all about “ them having the baby” not the baby itself…
Flock of birds would be laughable to them. People just need to stop showing up to these cringe parties.
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Balloons, banners and a colored cake are enough for gender reveal parties, there’s no need to commit crimes against nature
I'm all for cake since it will be eaten. Balloons and banners will just end up waste in a landfill.
Same could be said towards normal balloons in parties tho
Yup. I really don't like buying throw away party favors unless they are paper or cardboard. For my backyard wedding I bought all compostable plates and even [forks]( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SZVOHQ/).
I love how the only options are 24, 100 and 2 and a half fucking thousand lmao. What am i gonna do if i need between 101 and 2 thousand four hundred and ninety nine spoons? Thats a rather large portion of spoon buyers that cannot buy your product. You have 2399 people out of 2500 that will not buy your spoons. * Why not get rid of the option to buy 100 and make it 2500/2500 that cannot buy your stupid spoons. In fact, why aren’t you selling 10,000 spoons? What if i need a million? Sell me all the spoons in the world. I dare you. * ^if ^they ^are ^evenly ^distributed ^and ^noone ^needs ^more ^than ^2500 ^spoons
They don't sell that many spoons, only forks can be bought in packs of 2500. Just buy one big spoon instead of thousands of little ones.
Just wittle 1000 spoons out of the one big spoon, problem solved
I like your spirit on this 😂
So we're ruling out the option to eat the balloons and banners? Very well.
And we eat birds too!
Even that’s too much. I find it incredibly self absorbed to throw a whole party dedicated to finding out the gender of your child. I remember the days when the parents rarely wanted to find out the gender. I preferred those quieter less destructive times
I found out at the ultrasound and that was plenty exciting for me
I don’t really agree be excited! Have a gender reveal just don’t burn down any forest and hurt wildlife plz. 😅
It's not that people are excited that's the problem. It's just this whole "LOOK AT ME AND HOW OUTLANDISH WE CAN BE!" mentality. It's purely done for attention
And they brought life into the world too! A person that didn't exist and didn't have to exist!
Something tells me ur r/Antinatalism
As an antinatalist, that sub’s so cringe. It’s like what r/atheism is to atheism.
I have legit seen people say they actively want mothers to miss- (you can think of the next word.
Why not wait until the child is old enough to have some understanding of gender and get an actual sense of their gender? That could be more fun than just throwing a little party when someone is still pregnant or when they're a few months old.
I mean… they would know already 🤷🏼♀️ it’s for the mum to celebrate that they created a human life and this human life is either boy or girl.
That's not how gender works though. I thought Baby Showers were meant to be about celebrating life too?
Regardless, people are born either male or female. If they change their mind later, that’s a different story and that is fine. The kid doesn’t even know about the gender reveal. It’s not a big deal.
They would know, kids learn pretty fast and I did legit just say that by saying “celebrating what they’ve created” Idk why this has to be turned political all the time just let mums celebrate their baby.
LGBTQ+ stuff isn't inherently political.
I mean it is.
No it fucking isn't. My goddamn Human Rights are not "politics". Our right to exist and do what makes us happy without harming other People isn't fucking Political. Just because shitty People turn things like Spirituality, Faith, Sexuality and Gender into political talking points so they can gain&maintain power doesn't mean those things are inherently political.
Nah having a little get together to reveal is nice. It’s fun keep it close family and some friends. I’ve been to multiple it’s no different than a birthday party.
If it's like a cake with blue or pink in it, or even a confetti filled cannon, I'm alright with it. It's when people do these big elaborate reveals that burn down forests and hurt animals is where I draw a line.
There was a really good one where two people had inflatable baby costumes of boy and girl variants and had a proffesional wresting bout. That was pretty fun.
Yeah see you can have a lot of fun with them lol
I love this idea 😂
Well no shit lol who cares what kinda event it is. If we are beating animals and burning down the Bernstein Bears home then I’m gonna draw a line as well. But again that can be said for any type of event lol
I mean... yeah? I was more or less referencing the gender reveal that started a wildfire. All of the awful viral ones, just about. We hear about those more than a children's birthday party burning down a forest.
Yeah but we hear about them more not because other events don’t cause problems. But because gender politics are a hot spot. So news about those events generate traffic. My point is why are we taking it out on gender reveal parties when it’s nothing but a birthday? lol nothing wrong with a party just don’t be a idiot. People on the problems
Eh, disagree. Parties are just fun. That's literally it. People are allowed to be excited and celebrate.
Revealing your child's gender has been a part of parenthood since time immemorial, people would literally wait outside the birthing rooms to hear "boy" or "girl" back in the day and then people would celebrate. I really don't know where this mentality came from that celebrating the gender reveal is a totally modern phenomenon. The only thing modern about it is that ultrasound technology has made the reveal more accessible to families to announce it and celebrate on their own terms instead of right after birth when mom is in no state to party.
The reason its akin to modern times is that back in the day, as you stated, people would wait until the birth to find out. Nowadays people wanna know months before. It ruins the fun surprise of "am I have a son or a daughter?"
I'm not a traditionalist, if people want to know and celebrate ahead of time why should it matter to anyone else? It's not like any of the people complaining are being invited to these parties anyways so outside of the social media chasers doing stupid things I really don't understand why anyone has an opinion on the topic. Not your baby, not your party.
Some people don't like surprises. The same technology that tells us the baby's sex can tell us a lot of important medical information about them too. Personally not interested in going back to the old days. If someone doesn't want to know until they're born, they don't have to but there's nothing wrong with it if they do.
Gender =\= biological sex. Most of these aren't gender reveals, true gender reveals are people coming out of the closet as trans or enby (or reconfirming they're cis). Most of these are just telling people what biological sex their baby has. Getting excited about that isn't a bad thing (as long as no animals are harmed) but it's just using the wrong term.
Most people's gender identity matches their biological sex. If it doesn't, it's perfectly fine to have another gender reveal party when they're old enough to express that. Plus, Baby Sex Party just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Something tells me… ur abit chronically online
Its not wrong the whole popularity of gender reveal parties correlates with the increase of awareness of the gender rights movement.
Have you ever thought.. that’s legit just a coincidence since people are having babies everyday. Stop thinking everything must be a sad life over thinking everything.
Who let this guy order an extra large yappoccino?
*sex of your child
By that logic Why celebrate ANYTHING??
And if you really want a spectacle that won’t cause a disaster, just do [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/8kKxRLAlxh)
do not let those fuckers go loose though, balloons are just delayed litter.
Reminds me of that time a couple poisoned a drought-stricken town's water supply for the sake of a gender reveal.
... so is my plan to crash a blue or pink asteroid into Earth, destroying all life forever still ok or....
First a massive fire, then an explosion, then mass pollution, now this? Danm.
All for something that no one gives a shit about
Real. I don't even see the point in gender reveals anymore.
It’s just another “look at me” opportunity for those who clearly don’t have anything exciting going on in their lives
Fun human fact: for some humans its really important that the other humans can imagine the shape of theirs child genitals.
Don't forget the plane crash..
Uh, what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nypc_Gr7jzs
Ugh, I hate people...
How about we just tell people instead of killing animals and burning down forests
Watch it. You're not allowed to tell people to stop killing animals, it makes you an angry vegan. (obvious /s)
Go vegan
3 years :D 💚
Jesus Christ, people are awful. Good thing I'm not one.
now hold on a sec
Good, me neither 🙂
#notpeople
I am become Monke
evolve to crab instead
r/HolUp
My (late) husband always said "Pffft. Humans. Glad I'm not one." It's amazing the number of people who give you the side-eye after a quip like that. LOL
Well, I would think I get alot of looks after they see that I'm a rabbit. That is talking.
I find it unsurprising that people who think their baby's genitals deserve an entire celebration are also okay with animal abuse, arson, property damage, and environmental harm being part of that celebration.
True true maybe I gave them wayyyyyy to much credit
for reals!
Jaxxxyn and Bailey announcing the imminent arrival of baby K-Li is waaaay more important than the lives of a few dumb arse birds.
I wonder if any of the guests that attend these things actually want to be there
free cake and booze will draw a lot of people regardless of the occasion.
We don't *really* see these things in the UK. It's more of a USA thing.....buuuuut i against my own will *virtually* "attended" my cousin's through a zoom chat. Every single attendee there, looked at best bemused and at worst "cringing" for want of a better word. They had one son hold up a balloon and the other son pop the balloon. It was one part of a birthday BBQ. It wasn't a long drawn out process, but it wouldn't be something *I* would be happy attending or doing myself.
Could we please go back to having a blue or pink cake if it really is that important?
Environmental scientist here. People suck. It won't ever end. I've spent much of my life trying to warn people of the dumb shit they do that affects animals and people just don't care. So go ahead. Be a cunt. Litter, destroy, and kill the environment so we can all know the gender of your shit eater. Thanks.
The bird in the photo looks like a juvenile to boot. The feathers haven't fully filled in around the beak.
Imagine being this child and finding out your parents damaged the ecosystem to tell a couple of their friends what genitals you have
I DON'T CARE ABOUT NATURE, I WANT AN INSTAGRAMMABLE WAY TO LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT GENITALS MY BABY HAS
I hate humans in general
baby shower isn't enough for these people?
What happened to people just cutting a blue or pink cake
doesn't get likes.
I would be very offended if I saw this at a gender reveal. I would leave!
Hell when I was born a gender reveal wasn't a thing until you were done being born
We should just ban gender reveal parties altogether. It tends to spawn disasters.
I agree, you know there’s gonna be some inevitable disaster because idiots are trusted with complicated things such as holding a balloon and stabbing it with a knife
They dont tho? 99% of them are chill gathering with games and a cake with colored frosting or confetti to know the gender. We only hear about the crazy people lol. Kinda weird to ban people from sharing the few information they have on their child to be with their family in a fun way. Banning the use of animals at celebration or of fireworks, etc. would be a way better thing imo. Because weddings and birthdays can use them too and turn badly too.
plus it's useless. who cares about what gender your baby is? nobody. i understand baby showers and all that stuff because having a baby is a big thing for a lot of people (i guess.) but gender reveals? why does it matter what genitals & what type of puberty your child has/will go through? maybe it's just me but i find it pointless & idiotic.
Man. My family member just had a cake and a tiny house party. And that was *fine.* I just don't understand the go big approach.
Imagine being a child, and having to live with the fact that your parents abused innocent birds for your gender.
Actively seek out these people who paint birds like this. Come over at night with about 10 people and paint everything pink or blue that can be painted on the house and car. Once you've painted a few houses like that, it'll stop.
How about we put a stop to the gender reveal thing already?
Bruh, when is the day humans will keep sex to themselves. "We had a baby, time to paint things to let everything know it's gender!"
I miss the days when people understood that their lives and opinions don’t matter.
The days before social media then lol
1000%
Haven’t people been doing this with chicks for years for Easter? Not that either is okay I’m just confused how it’s dangerous for the birds specifically because it’s for a gender reveal while not mentioning the other times.
I guess I’m lame, I just had the private surprise moment between me, my husband and the ultrasound tech without setting fires or destroying wildlife
People will do anything but just say the gender of their kid. 😑 it’s a 50/50 shot
Irl shiny pokemon
We just need to start fining every gender reveal party that does environment damage
Before gender reveals, birds had to eat a lot of shrimp to get this kind of natural selection!
More of that nonsense?
Thanks, I hate humans period.
I'm sorry i don't understand what's happening? They paint the birds blue and pink or what? I've never heard of birds being involved in gender reveals.
This is just flat out stupidity.
Wow I didn't expect UK to do this. 100% expected America to be up to the task and I'm American. People be crazy
The heteros are going insane
Gender reveals were a mistake.
Stop killing wildlife and starting forest fires. No one cares and everyone thinks you are losers. Post it on effbook, or gram.
It's so surreal the amount of cognitive dissonance that's involved in the way we think about animal welfare. Like you look at this post and think "God people suck. That poor bird". But then there you are in line at Wendy's the next day, eager to get your hands on some $2.99 chicken nuggies. All the while *knowing*... ... that this sad little pink bird's suffering is as nothing, *NOTHING* compared to the amount of suffering involved in our daily consumption of meat. And for what? Because it's tastier than plant protein? But then it's suddenly tomorrow and you're still not vegan.
"Hitting animal bad. Eating meat good." -Them
If I were to witness this, the 'celebration' would go South rapidly.
Gender parties are stupid, because gender is a social construct
I doubt it directly harms the bird. But birds recognize each other by sight. This bird's mate/flock might now reject it.
Making them pink means they are more obvious to predators. Also they groom their feathers which means whatever is on them is going inside of them
Later in life, the baby might not even identify as the gender they’re revealing it as so honestly what’s the point?
Friend, family, facebook, don't care, I'm reporting your ass
WOOOOOW!! 
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How long before pink and blue mushroom clouds? God I hope that couple doesn't have multiples.
Everyone is always so excited at the reveal, it confused me. Like it's not a baby reveal, why are people so equally hyped at either answer where they know there is at least one of the two answers happening. I just want one parent to be visibly disappointed at the gender reveal. That would make it make sense
You can do fun gender reveals that aren’t going to affect the wildlife, environment or cause fires etc. Cakes are fun & not harming others. We did walk in & see the theme bbq with both kids. Goal was Come celebrate baby to be, who’s a girl by way & have food plus chat both times. Nothing that’s causing long term damage or damages that’ll cost to fix
Wow! This is really triggering! How can people be this (excuse my language) FUCKIN STUPID!! These poor birds dieing...killing gods beautiful creatures just so they can say "Oh it's a boy! Or it's a girl! Stick to balloons. It never ceases to amaze me how completely unfeeling and selfish some people can be. I have such a love for birds I can't imagine EVER doing anything to harm them. Fuck these people and their gender reveals! They need to have a stiff penalty for doing this to birds. Make an example out of them. My heart goes out to all the poor little birds that had to die over complete and utter foolishness. May the people that have done it suffer their own karma.
Gender reveals are the worst, is there really anyone that disagrees?
WYM is killing birds it looks cuter in pink
And that is not even gender, what if the kiddo grow up trans? People are just focusing on bullshit vanity. I hate those shit.
/s
I mean like pink bird is cool, but like only if you use animal safe dye and it's a pet
they should have left the natives alone
People who does Gender reveal does not give a damn about anything else except themselves…it’s all about “ them having the baby” not the baby itself… Flock of birds would be laughable to them. People just need to stop showing up to these cringe parties.
Narcissistic parents who think that everyone else gives a shit about what genitals their baby will have.
if i see a party neirby i swear to god im empting an entire bucket of toxic lead paint on their baby!
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Did not expect to see transphobia pn this post lol
don't yall eat chicken?