i always say that a Gender Reveal Party can’t really happen until the kid is like 16 years old. the thing people are currently doing would more accurately be called a Baby Sex Party.
Then technically these should be renamed to “Genital Reveal Parties” but that would imply a different type of party…
in some cases the evidence of “gender” is inferred based on a blood test (the popular commercial tests I know of just looks for the presence of Y chromosome in the mother’s blood and infers the baby is male if so, and if not that the baby is female), so people who throw a party based on a blood test would be throwing a “presence of Y chromosome” party …
“Sex reveal party”. No, that sounds bad, too. “Assigned sex at birth reveal party”. You know what? Maybe we shouldn’t make such a big deal about what sex someone is born as and let them tell us who they are as they figure it out.
gender reveal parties, but a pendant shows up and explains it’s meant to be a sex reveal party, but due to the more risque use of the word sex, and the ambigious uses of the word gender, communication about the motive of such things are difficult, and a feeding ground for pendants, people who have been marginalised, and oppressors.
I also don’t know where I’m going with this. I’m not sure what my next task should be and I’m letting my mind percolate.
Was it an opal pendant, or perhaps a cameo?
Also, I prefer French press over percolate.
The time of the French press has passed. It’s time for the percolator ( 16 years ago anyway).
Ambiguous usage of the word is one of the reasons oppressors have such outdated and undereducated views. The less ambiguity the easier it can be explained to the common folk.
The fun bit is that the word gender was pulled from linguistics into sociology exactly to try to make a less ambiguous situation.
It literally went "what if we talked about people having gender like the French talk about objects?” Much like people, a table is feminine in French regardless of if it has a penis or not.
Later, people decided to use gender as a synonym for sex and complain about using the word gender in a way that’s ambiguous with sex.
Gender has been conflated with human sex from the fifteenth century, but I like your explanation of the sociological application.
This is my people. By that, I mean “nerdy leftists who are pretty self-aware in their absurdity, but it can be very hard to tell from the outside, so they are often very cringe to people who aren’t of the same story”. It’s silly, and I love it
Gender reveal party is a social construct.
shit still doesn’t exist outside of america as far as i can tell, it’s one of those things that are hilariously predicable which people in sweden will start doing it: rich stockholmers with more money than sense whose lives seem to revolve around american media and NOTHING else
