prismatic-bell:phoenixiancrystallist: Friendly reminder that the woman who popularized gender reveal
prismatic-bell:phoenixiancrystallist: Friendly reminder that the woman who popularized gender reveal parties did hers because she’d had several miscarriages and she was celebrating her first pregnancy to get far enough where the fetus had identifiable genitals. Here’s an article that talks about it. @phoenixiancrystallist show me the people setting the goddamn forests on fire with their “balls or ballet” parties who know that or give a shit.Also in case you missed it, she wishes she hadn’t done it.But hey, good for you! You get to make queer people feel bad for disliking the idea! Have a gold fucking star! I feel like the clarification actually makes gender reveal parties worse?Like… this is a thing a person did to celebrate her child being alive and reaching a milestone, and other people co-opted it for toxic patriarchal heteronormativity. It’s like, what if you celebrated your child’s first words, and everyone else declared English Only parties where they celebrate that their child is speaking English and not any other language? -- source link