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Life is full of special occasions that might call for celebration. But one, particularly modern trend is to create a lot of fanfare about announcing the gender of one’s unborn child. It seems like not even a whole month goes by without fire, injuries, or a combination of the two.
We’ve gathered perhaps the worst examples of gender reveal parties where something went horribly wrong. From too much enthusiasm mixed with too little safety to terrible ideas with even worse execution, get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences below.
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#3
When You Order The Gender Reveal Cake From The Babushka At The Russian Bakery
While they remain relatively popular, we are at the point where many people associate gender reveal parties with nothing but chaos, accidents, and disaster. At best, they are often tacky, somewhat unnecessary, and contain the most blatant “gendered” examples of things you have ever seen, from "Guns or Glitter" to "Pistols or Pearls."
At worst, the list goes on and on and on. For example, one 2017 gender reveal party gone wrong in Arizona caused a 46,991-acre wildfire. For whatever reason, the expecting parents wanted to celebrate sharing their child’s gender using explosives.
#4
My Dad Thought My Brother’s Gender Reveal Party Was Him Coming Out As Transgender
#6
Chocolate: Boy, Strawberry: Girl. There Is Only One Baby And I See Two Flavors
A key issue is people going overboard. In general, it can be thoughtful to do something special for those unique life experiences, even if your plan isn’t the best formulated out there. But for one reason or another, gender reveal parties seem to come with a sort of arms race among parents who want to outdo each other.
#9
We Found Out At Our 32-Week Growth Scan That Our Little Girl Was Actually A Little Boy
Even worse, this destruction and injuries aren’t necessarily limited to the participants. The aforementioned Arizona fire isn’t even the sole gender-reveal-party-wildfire. The El Dorado Fire that destroyed parts of San Bernardino and Riverside in California was caused by, you guessed it, a smoke bomb lighting dry grass on fire.
#10
So This Was Supposed To Be The Gender Reveal, But Somehow The "Gender Reveal" Part Got Left Out, And Typical For My Husband, He Ate The Cupcake Whole Not Even Noticing The Pink Cream Center
Unfortunately, these are hardly the only cases of death and destruction from a gender reveal party. Like some sort of ritual, where the old must be torn down to allow the new to come into existence, other parties have ended up with deaths and even plane crashes. All to announce what amounts to the results of an ultrasound.
#13
Let's Do The Reveal Inside. What's The Worst That Can Happen? The Aftermath Was Crazy
#14
My Friend's Family Wore The Colors Of The Gender They Preferred For The New Baby
All this risk, over a pretty tacky and needlessly gendered party. There is nothing wrong with being in a celebrity mood when you are expecting a child, but it’s perhaps worth considering exactly what you want to celebrate. Announcing the name, for example, seems like a much better bet than random blue or pink items.
#17
He Or She? We Don’t Know Either. Mislabeled Streamers Lead To A Confusing Gender Reveal! This Is Something We Won’t Forget. It’s A Girl
#18
This Was Supposed To Be My Gender Reveal For The Grandparents. Total Flop, Should Read "It's A Boy", But Domino's Apparently Doesn't Know How To Place Pepperonis Close Together
#19
Cara And I Are So Excited To Announce Another Workman Boy Is On The Way. He Will Be Here In September And We Can’t Wait To Meet Him. Epic Gender Reveal Fail Caught. Treat Yourselves
#24
I'm Not Sure If I Was More Shocked To See A Blank Gender Reveal Cake Or That I’m Going To Be An All-Boy Mom. Fail On Bakery, Have Receipt That Says "Blue Icing"
#25
Before Finding Out He Was Getting A Baby Sister And After. Hopefully, We Will Get Him To Warm Up To The Idea Before She Gets Here
#26
Sister Had A Gender Reveal At A Club. I Can't Tell If They're Just Dumb Or Screwed-Up And Didn't Bother To Fix It
#30
Well, It Was An Epic Gender Reveal, That's For Sure. This One Will Go Down In Family Story Books And Will Be Retold For Years To Come. It Was Almost Like "Tractors Or Bows"
#32
Gender Reveal Gone Wrong. We Ordered A Strawberry Cake, Just Like We Did For My First Daughter's Reveal. This One Was White
#34
My Toddler Stuck Her Finger In The Cake So We Could See The Color Inside
#36
Husband Surprised Me With Pity Party Gender Reveal. Cake Makes Everything Better
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Someone_from_the_Netherlands 8 months ago
I think I get downvoted a lot, but gender reveal parties are among the stupidest things ever...
Alro 8 months ago
you get my upvote. Really really really don't get it. fight for equality and on the other side assign colors on unborn babies.
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Kim Kermes 8 months ago
Top of the list is the expletives in Southern California who set off fireworks in a park during high fire danger season, killing 2, destroying I don't remember how many homes and acres of open land. I had ashes, the next town has ashes snowing, and the town after that was preparing to evacuate with volunteers coming with trailers for animals. If it had come to that, the only highway to Palm Springs would have closed, turning a 50 minute trip into 2 hours for the many who work down there and live near Joshua Tree National Park.
Corinne Wheeler 8 months ago
When are these ridiculous events going to stop. The scans can get it wrong anyway.
Jasmijn 8 months ago
For my baby’s gender reveal, the sonographer said “You’re having a healthy girl”, and my husband and I said “Great!” and we moved on with our day, happy that our baby was healthy regardless of sex.
scteach87161921 8 months ago
Same!!! 20 week anatomy scan, ultrasound tech says, it's a boy (2019) and it's a girl! (2021) My husband and I said "yay!" End of gender reveal party.
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JuJu 8 months ago
Nobody and nothing can convice me that gender reveals are a good thing. Just don't.
pasej41913@bustayes.com 8 months ago
So much attention seeking main character syndrome people. This is so cringe.
Emie N. 8 months ago
Having an entire party dedicated to what your baby has between their legs is just weird and stupid as hell. Especially if the baby grows up and comes out as trans.
Cecil 8 months ago
All the pics of disappointed parents are disgusting. You're bringing a person into the world, not a toy, people
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Corvus 8 months ago
I still don't understand why it has to be an event. What happened to picking up the phone and just telling people "Oh, by the way, it's a boy/girl"?
James016 8 months ago
That's how we did it. Told our families after we found out but only told friends if they asked.
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Lara Verne 8 months ago
Gender reveals are not a thing here and I hope it stays this way. It seems cringy and stupid, even if things don't go wrong and bakery send the right cake. And it's pretty sad, seeing men who act angry or dissapointed when kid is a girl.
Deborah B 8 months ago
Gender reveals are annoying. Anything that involves confetti or smoke or fireworks in public should be banned. If you're in your own home with a cake, then it's fine, just cringy. Popping confetti and glitter in a restaurant and leaving it for employees to clean up, or spraying paint or smoke residue and dumping paper in public parks etc, is just environmental pollution.
Jodi 8 months ago
And all the plastic balloons that just wreck the environment I just don't understand the obsession with balloons nowadays
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Jill Bussey 8 months ago
Apart from a medical reason, why not wait until the baby is born? It's just a lovely surprise.
Sky Render 8 months ago
Before the rise of sonography as a standard practice, that was how it worked. Even until fairly recently (about 30ish years ago), parents would ask that they not be told their child's sex unless it was some sort of emergency related to that. I don't know what's changed, but I wish it hadn't. It's led to a situation where people are now obsessed with the genitals of infants.
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AnaBanana 8 months ago
Currently pregnant with my first. We decided to not find out the gender until the baby is born, because honestly, it doesn't matter the sex. It's our first and we are beyond excited and just want a healthy baby! Our family has been supportive but we have had comments like, how are you going to prepare for the baby or plan the baby shower, there are no cute gender neutral gifts, blah blah blah. Like as if it matters what color they wear or what their nursery looks like. Babies can wear any and all colors, why limit yourself to just pink or blue?!
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 8 months ago
If I ever were to be pregnant (not likely, lol) I'd throw a gender reveal party where we get to eat a lot of yummy cake (not that frosting-nightmare we see here so often) and have a fun evening and party with maybe barbecue or otherwise nice cooking. And I'd reveal that in all likelyhood, the baby will indeed have some form of gender. Why the party, you ask? Because CAKE!! Why else do this?
Power puff scientist 8 months ago
shouldn't it be called a biological sex reveal party since we decided gender refers to a social construct of how you identify now?
Feathered Dinosaur 8 months ago
Because people will be sad and confused if invited to a 'Sex celebration party' and all they get is cake
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JayWantsACat 8 months ago
Gender reveal party. Baby shower. Birth party. Count me out of all that. Thanks.
Max Fox 8 months ago (edited)
Yes, "gender reveal parties", because otherwise nobody will ever know what the baby's biological sex is, and the kid's biological sex is obviously the Most Important Thing about a baby. Ever. Baby showers are/were a way to gift parents with useful items before the baby is born. "Gender reveal parties" are for self-centered parents who feel that they are not getting enough attention.
Mermeow Overlord (they/she) 8 months ago (edited)
My gender reveal will have a purple cake, no gender, just cake.
Steve Kenney 8 months ago
Today I had a gender reveal party, I found out I'm a boy. What an epic fail for me. Also I am single and live alone, but still epic fail.
CORGI QUEEN 8 months ago
gender reveals make no sense to me like you will see the gender of the baby when they are born and especially if the child decides later on that it doesn't want to be its birth gender it makes no sense to spend so much money when the child doesn't even feel like that gender. Like i will wait for the child to decide.
John Dilligaf 8 months ago
These are all pretty tame, comparatively. ... No one got killed, because that's happened. .....No one caused a major ecological incident, because that's happened. .... No one caused a major wildfire, because that's happened. ..... Gender reveal parties are stupid.
Guess Undheit 8 months ago
GENITALS reveal party, not "gender". The kid for whom first ever "party" of this nonsense was about is Non-Binary. They are neither "girl" nor "boy".
Gavin Johnson 8 months ago
There are very few genuine and perfect surprises left in this world. We seem to crave attention and drama, why? When my wife was pregnant we specifically asked for the scan to be only used to check health and that we didn’t want t know the sex of our child. Come birth day it was a wonderful surprise that we had a baby girl, we had two girls names, one I preferred, one she preferred and one boys name that we both liked. Once she was born there was no way that my choice was going to be the one, I had watched my wife carry and give birth to the most amazing thing ever, her choice naturally won and I can’t imagine our daughter being anything other than an Erin 😀❤️
FABULOUS1 8 months ago
We only went on the side of the house to do my daughters gender reveal with a confetti popper. It took 2 minutes, it was just my daughter, granddaughter, my wife and myself. Found out it was a boy, granddaughter cried as we walked back in. No forest fires, destruction of property, just a lot of hugs and telling granddaughter brothers can be fun too.
Anony Mouse 8 months ago
*Genital reveal parties. A few of these looked so pinteresty-instaworthy-influency that I feel bad for the props they're breeding to increase views and likes.
Gary 8 months ago
This sad state of affairs has become a thing in the UK now sadly, thanks America for that.
Cecil 8 months ago
Sorry your shallow idiots were influenced by our shallow idiots
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Someone_from_the_Netherlands 8 months ago
I think I get downvoted a lot, but gender reveal parties are among the stupidest things ever...
Alro 8 months ago
you get my upvote. Really really really don't get it. fight for equality and on the other side assign colors on unborn babies.
Load More Replies... Kim Kermes 8 months ago
Top of the list is the expletives in Southern California who set off fireworks in a park during high fire danger season, killing 2, destroying I don't remember how many homes and acres of open land. I had ashes, the next town has ashes snowing, and the town after that was preparing to evacuate with volunteers coming with trailers for animals. If it had come to that, the only highway to Palm Springs would have closed, turning a 50 minute trip into 2 hours for the many who work down there and live near Joshua Tree National Park.
Corinne Wheeler 8 months ago
When are these ridiculous events going to stop. The scans can get it wrong anyway.
Jasmijn 8 months ago
For my baby’s gender reveal, the sonographer said “You’re having a healthy girl”, and my husband and I said “Great!” and we moved on with our day, happy that our baby was healthy regardless of sex.
scteach87161921 8 months ago
Same!!! 20 week anatomy scan, ultrasound tech says, it's a boy (2019) and it's a girl! (2021) My husband and I said "yay!" End of gender reveal party.
Load More Replies... JuJu 8 months ago
Nobody and nothing can convice me that gender reveals are a good thing. Just don't.
pasej41913@bustayes.com 8 months ago
So much attention seeking main character syndrome people. This is so cringe.
Emie N. 8 months ago
Having an entire party dedicated to what your baby has between their legs is just weird and stupid as hell. Especially if the baby grows up and comes out as trans.
Cecil 8 months ago
All the pics of disappointed parents are disgusting. You're bringing a person into the world, not a toy, people
Load More Replies... Corvus 8 months ago
I still don't understand why it has to be an event. What happened to picking up the phone and just telling people "Oh, by the way, it's a boy/girl"?
James016 8 months ago
That's how we did it. Told our families after we found out but only told friends if they asked.
Load More Replies... Lara Verne 8 months ago
Gender reveals are not a thing here and I hope it stays this way. It seems cringy and stupid, even if things don't go wrong and bakery send the right cake. And it's pretty sad, seeing men who act angry or dissapointed when kid is a girl.
Deborah B 8 months ago
Gender reveals are annoying. Anything that involves confetti or smoke or fireworks in public should be banned. If you're in your own home with a cake, then it's fine, just cringy. Popping confetti and glitter in a restaurant and leaving it for employees to clean up, or spraying paint or smoke residue and dumping paper in public parks etc, is just environmental pollution.
Jodi 8 months ago
And all the plastic balloons that just wreck the environment I just don't understand the obsession with balloons nowadays
Load More Replies... Jill Bussey 8 months ago
Apart from a medical reason, why not wait until the baby is born? It's just a lovely surprise.
Sky Render 8 months ago
Before the rise of sonography as a standard practice, that was how it worked. Even until fairly recently (about 30ish years ago), parents would ask that they not be told their child's sex unless it was some sort of emergency related to that. I don't know what's changed, but I wish it hadn't. It's led to a situation where people are now obsessed with the genitals of infants.
Load More Replies... AnaBanana 8 months ago
Currently pregnant with my first. We decided to not find out the gender until the baby is born, because honestly, it doesn't matter the sex. It's our first and we are beyond excited and just want a healthy baby! Our family has been supportive but we have had comments like, how are you going to prepare for the baby or plan the baby shower, there are no cute gender neutral gifts, blah blah blah. Like as if it matters what color they wear or what their nursery looks like. Babies can wear any and all colors, why limit yourself to just pink or blue?!
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 8 months ago
If I ever were to be pregnant (not likely, lol) I'd throw a gender reveal party where we get to eat a lot of yummy cake (not that frosting-nightmare we see here so often) and have a fun evening and party with maybe barbecue or otherwise nice cooking. And I'd reveal that in all likelyhood, the baby will indeed have some form of gender. Why the party, you ask? Because CAKE!! Why else do this?
Power puff scientist 8 months ago
shouldn't it be called a biological sex reveal party since we decided gender refers to a social construct of how you identify now?
Feathered Dinosaur 8 months ago
Because people will be sad and confused if invited to a 'Sex celebration party' and all they get is cake
Load More Replies... JayWantsACat 8 months ago
Gender reveal party. Baby shower. Birth party. Count me out of all that. Thanks.
Max Fox 8 months ago (edited)
Yes, "gender reveal parties", because otherwise nobody will ever know what the baby's biological sex is, and the kid's biological sex is obviously the Most Important Thing about a baby. Ever. Baby showers are/were a way to gift parents with useful items before the baby is born. "Gender reveal parties" are for self-centered parents who feel that they are not getting enough attention.
Mermeow Overlord (they/she) 8 months ago (edited)
My gender reveal will have a purple cake, no gender, just cake.
Steve Kenney 8 months ago
Today I had a gender reveal party, I found out I'm a boy. What an epic fail for me. Also I am single and live alone, but still epic fail.
CORGI QUEEN 8 months ago
gender reveals make no sense to me like you will see the gender of the baby when they are born and especially if the child decides later on that it doesn't want to be its birth gender it makes no sense to spend so much money when the child doesn't even feel like that gender. Like i will wait for the child to decide.
John Dilligaf 8 months ago
These are all pretty tame, comparatively. ... No one got killed, because that's happened. .....No one caused a major ecological incident, because that's happened. .... No one caused a major wildfire, because that's happened. ..... Gender reveal parties are stupid.
Guess Undheit 8 months ago
GENITALS reveal party, not "gender". The kid for whom first ever "party" of this nonsense was about is Non-Binary. They are neither "girl" nor "boy".
Gavin Johnson 8 months ago
There are very few genuine and perfect surprises left in this world. We seem to crave attention and drama, why? When my wife was pregnant we specifically asked for the scan to be only used to check health and that we didn’t want t know the sex of our child. Come birth day it was a wonderful surprise that we had a baby girl, we had two girls names, one I preferred, one she preferred and one boys name that we both liked. Once she was born there was no way that my choice was going to be the one, I had watched my wife carry and give birth to the most amazing thing ever, her choice naturally won and I can’t imagine our daughter being anything other than an Erin 😀❤️
FABULOUS1 8 months ago
We only went on the side of the house to do my daughters gender reveal with a confetti popper. It took 2 minutes, it was just my daughter, granddaughter, my wife and myself. Found out it was a boy, granddaughter cried as we walked back in. No forest fires, destruction of property, just a lot of hugs and telling granddaughter brothers can be fun too.
Anony Mouse 8 months ago
*Genital reveal parties. A few of these looked so pinteresty-instaworthy-influency that I feel bad for the props they're breeding to increase views and likes.
Gary 8 months ago
This sad state of affairs has become a thing in the UK now sadly, thanks America for that.
Cecil 8 months ago
Sorry your shallow idiots were influenced by our shallow idiots
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