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When parents are expecting a baby, the most important thing to most of them is obviously for the child to be born healthy and live a happy life. However, some parents put a lot of importance on what the sex of the baby will be. They will buy clothes and decorate the room accordingly. Although gender norms are starting to fade and parents try to not enforce a specific color or activity on their future baby, there are still people who do that.

Some people even make a really big thing out of finding out what the baby's sex will be. They organize parties that are specifically dedicated to revealing if they will have a boy or a girl. And these parties can get really cringey. In this list, you will find some of the bizarre ways people find out what they're having and some concerning cake ideas.

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Blursed Gender Reveal

Blursed Gender Reveal

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Vicky Z
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That would be an interesting gender reveal party! would there still be cake ?

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If you think that gender reveal parties are an old tradition, you’d be wrong as the party that is considered to be the first one took place in 2008. A blogger named Jenna Karvunidis made a post about the special cake she baked which, once cut, revealed the sex of the baby as the icing was supposed to be either pink, meaning she would be having a girl, or blue, meaning she would be having a boy.

Even though Jenna was the first to have a gender reveal party, she doesn’t like what it has become. She said numerous times she regrets “inventing” it and in a Facebook post has said, “I've felt a lot of mixed feelings about my random contribution to the culture. It just exploded into crazy after that. Literally—guns firing, forest fires, more emphasis on gender than has ever been necessary for a baby.”

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My Husband's Idea Of A Gender Reveal Cake

My Husband's Idea Of A Gender Reveal Cake

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Bored Panda reached out to Jenna and we learnt that she is being a busy bee: “I am in my 3rd year of law school and through that, I do things like volunteer at a name change clinic helping people who are trans to legally change their name and pronouns. I’m also a Girl Scout leader, Vice President of my Women’s Law Association, Treasurer of my Environmental Law Society, co-founded Sierra Madre For Racial Justice in my community, and I was the official host of the Pasadena Women’s March last year. I also have 3 daughters and love to paint giant paintings.”

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We wanted to know more about the original gender reveal party and we got to know why Jenna came up with the idea in the first place. The party Jenna made was just a simple reveal of the cake icing. She told us, “I was just trying to get my family excited about my baby. I was estranged from my parents at age 17 and  I haven’t seen them in about 10 years now, but there was a short time around the time I got married and had my first baby that we were on better terms. I was trying to get them to be involved, so I threw a party to reveal the gender of the baby thinking that would get them excited about me.”

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Raven DeathShade
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then their female child is born, and she plays football and owns a farm XD.

Gail Nicholson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

AND does ballet and owns a pearl-handled pistol because I don't know what is wrong with these people, thinking anyone has to be constrained by their gender like this! You probably wouldn't wear a tiara while mucking out the pigs, though. Could drop it in the mud.

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Nikki Sevven
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This practice is deranged, imo. Just have healthy babies, please.

Jo Choto
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like, if this is really how you see the roles of your children, based on their gender, I think I'm ok with forcible sterilization.

Otter
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like blue and not pink, I like hiking, kayaking, volcanos, glaciers, and opera, but I don't care about cars. what sex am I?

Persephone
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yay. Let's raise more sexist men and more oppressed women.

Run Forest
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I don't think these were taken in Iran or Afghanistan buddy.

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Donkey boi
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a Man I can happily say that I would rather have the cupcake, ballet, tractor and pearls. I've no real need for a tiara but could use a nice new tractor, Guns are for stupid people, sport is boring and cakes are better than American muffins.

Beast
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

exactly!!! we r in the 21st century! this shouldn't be happening anymore

Blue of the yams
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Quickest way to tell the world you're not ready for a gender non-conforming child

Marlowe Fitzpatrik
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All those parents I wish upon one of those kids that is exactly the opposite at what they assigned to them. A tiara-wearing son, a pistol-toting girl, a daughter in the women's superbowl and a ballet-dancing boy.

Mazer
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How conservative people deal with the whole concept of let your kid be who they are meant to be…heavy sigh

Llama_flower93
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes me so annoyed. As a woman and a tomboy, with stereotypical "guy interests", I despise the crap that is shoved onto girls and the stuff I was expected to like, wear and act as. Still have people expect things of me just cause I'm female. It starts before you're even born.

Valley Girl
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

None of it matters. Kid will be dead by gun accident before it reaches the age of majority.

Jojo's Terrible Aesthetics
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gender stereotypes. Will show this pictures to my students to teach them about about gender stereotypes

Tonya Wallace
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um...I drove my dad's tractor, helping with our land upkeep from the age of 9 until I was in my 20s. I also have a vagina.

Hannah Edwards
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh. Shoehorn your unborn child into a gender role why don’t you.

Marc Lauzon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Parents : "They are brainwashing our kids!" Same parents : ...

The Crazy Goldendoodle Lover
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tractors? I'm a grown woman! I work on a farm! You won't ever see me wearing a f**k'n tiara!😡 I also played football in high school!

loopyli
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't wait to give birth to a tractor! Lol I love these!

lenka
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uurgh. Imagine growing up in a house where these kind expectations exist before you are even born.

Little king trash mouth
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Man, people really love their alliteration. I mean, I'm an English teach who likes some good literary devices, but yikes!

Gideon Issac Gamble
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

PISTOLS OR PEARLS!? Wait, nevermind, I live in the south, this is normal.

Sarah Lewis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the tractors and tiaras and touchdown and tutus ones are cute

Joe Edwards
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where I come from, the country girls work just as hard or harder than the boys

Wednesday
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What if you have a cis-girl who likes baseball and racing cars? How ever will you deal. How a bout a cis-boy into fashion design? Gender roles are stupid ffs.

Riley Quinn
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Child is still in the womb, but that doesn't stop the harmful stereotypes. I wore pearls to sharp shooting competitions, so eff this damaging BS.

PixxelDust
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

POV: You just came out of childbirth only to find out that the baby is actually a tractor

Limey
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor kid, you better not be expecting to be anything other than your stereotype…

Redling
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

most of these cakes are horrible and i hate them but im also hungry now

Tina Hugh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why put down straight people? Mocking people for their sexual orientation is not nice

Yort
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh good, I guess this is a “let’s generalize cis straight people as being stupid and weird” listicle.

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Gender is irrelevant. Just ask is it male, or female? The rest is made-up nonsense.

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She also told The Guardian that she'd had several miscarriages previously and when she finally got pregnant and the pregnancy lasted to the point at which she could know the baby’s sex, she wanted to celebrate that, but people who wanted to recreate the party started putting emphasis on the wrong aspects of it.

She told Buzzfeed, “I just feel like there are a thousand details more important about a person than their gender. It’s a bad detail to hang on for a baby, and just because it’s the first thing we know about our kids, it’s not the most important by far."

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That's It, No More Gender Reveal Parties

That's It, No More Gender Reveal Parties

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Also, it is worth mentioning that even though the party is always said to be a gender reveal, it is actually the biological sex that is revealed. Jenna wrote in the mentioned Facebook post, “PLOT TWIST, the world's first gender-reveal party baby is a girl who wears suits!”

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Jenna also told Glamour, “She has her opinions about there being many genders, and she is informing me about things. She was biologically born a female, and she is still ‘she’ and ‘her’ and says she’s a girl, but she is still doing things her way.”

We asked if she was the one that coined the term, but actually, when she was having the party, she “called it a 'peep show' because the cake was shaped like a bird.” Jenna also added, “Anyway, about the party itself—that was 2008 and I didn’t know the things I know now. Gender is a construct. Learn more, do better, I guess!”

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Gender Reveal Redneck Style.

Gender Reveal Redneck Style.

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Nikki Sevven
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great. Pollute the air your pregnant wife is breathing. What a fantastic idea.

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High School Acquaintance Wins The Award For Worst Gender Reveal Ever

High School Acquaintance Wins The Award For Worst Gender Reveal Ever

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D0ntTh1nk
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one isn't as bad as some of the others. It seems tamer even if rather anti-climactic

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When asked why she thinks gender reveal parties are so popular and why people care so much, Jenna had a guess. She said, “I think people care about these events because pregnancy can be a lonely time. You love this little baby so much, but then the parents realize their support systems are lacking. Parties bring people together. So maybe people are trying to set their tribes.”

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Meanwhile In Florida... Aligator Assisted Gender Reveal

Meanwhile In Florida... Aligator Assisted Gender Reveal

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Ryan-James O'Driscoll
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find myself rooting for the alligator. Wildlife does not exist for your entertainment!

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Gender reveal parties are receiving more and more criticism because they are often sexist and they get crazier by the day. After these parties, many people just leave confetti and it creates litter, and there have also been cases where the parties caused wildfires, cars have exploded, and the scale of these parties for some has reached that of a wedding.

So this list shows the cringey side of the parties and that people should relax a bit and focus on other things that are more important about the baby. But tell us, what do you think of gender reveal parties? Do you think they can be done with taste? Or do you think they are completely unnecessary? Also, don’t forget to upvote the most cringey photos!

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Gender Reveals Are Stupid

Gender Reveals Are Stupid

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Gender Reveal Cake...

Gender Reveal Cake...

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From The Gender Reveal To The Fondant, This Whole Thing Feels Pointless And Unnecessary

From The Gender Reveal To The Fondant, This Whole Thing Feels Pointless And Unnecessary

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Pretty Sure This Belongs Here... 90% Of Gender Reveals Are Trashy Af.

Pretty Sure This Belongs Here... 90% Of Gender Reveals Are Trashy Af.

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Can Gender Reveal Get Any Worse? Yes.

Can Gender Reveal Get Any Worse? Yes.

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Cat
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What if the kid wanted to wear board shorts over a bikini? 🤔

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Nikki Sevven
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel the need to point out two things. (1) Most cis folks think that gender reveal parties are abysmally stupid and unnecessary. (2) Princess Leia was a Jedi.

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Pictures From A Gender Reveal I Saw On Facebook

Pictures From A Gender Reveal I Saw On Facebook

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Scagsy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I imagine that took some idiot hours to come up with. Well done. Idiot.

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I Can't With Gender Reveal Cakes

I Can't With Gender Reveal Cakes

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am hating these cakes, but at the same time impressed by the decoration - it's a skill I don't have, just a shame it's being sold out on these attention seeking wastes of space and time. (Although, as has also been pointed out - cake!)

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