Parents to be, please stop blowing yourself up for your kids gender reveal parties (yes... Another one happened)

[MechaJackie]

Soon we will have a entire generation with a very strange talking point to bond over.
"How many people died in your Sex Reveal Party?"
It will be like talking about the weather.

 

[KarmaCow]

This is one of those things that is utterly incomprehensible. I don't understand it on any level.

 

[Deleted member 721]

its a stupid trendy type of party imo the whole idea of it, no one cares for the gender, maybe even the kid doesnt identify with that gender in the future, there's already baby shower to celebrate the child and give stuff, but people create more useless type of parties like 1 month birthday party etc
there's better ways to show love for the kid than that

 

[Rosebud]

Please don't do gender reveal parties at all, it's 2021 and non-cisgender people exist.

 

[geomon]

What happened to just handing out cigars?

 

[psynergyadept]

just get a damn cake and ballons...It's incredibly sad the soon to be child(along with the rest of the family) will grow and without a dad and how he died...

 

[Legacy]

Is this strictly an American stupidity ? I don't think I've ever seen non-US news about grand gender reveal parties.

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Got to be, I've never seen anything like it from any of my friends across Europe and plenty of them have a had kids.

People just go too far sometimes

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Got to be, I've never seen anything like it from any of my friends across Europe and plenty of them have a had kids.

People just go too far sometimes

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It was invented in the US in 2008. The creator later went on record saying she regrets having popularized this practice.

 

[Swiggins]

Got to be, I've never seen anything like it from any of my friends across Europe and plenty of them have a had kids.

People just go too far sometimes

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Might have something to do with Europeans not readily having access to high-explosives.

 

[Senator Toadstool]

I hate hate hate gender reveal parties. Just tell people what your expecting not throw a big extravagant thing.

 

[DemyxC]

I feel like people in this thread are getting too used to dunking on people for buying into culture hype, even if it's dumb as shit. Dude is died, his kid will have no father, and I doubt he was even aware it was a dumb thing to do.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

I feel awful for the families and kids left behind, but I also feel like there are few Darwin awards more deserved than these. Fucking stupid doesn't even begin to describe it. I'm legit angry that somehow MORE THAN ONE PERSON has to be told why this kinda stuff just isn't worth it.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

and I doubt he was even aware it was a dumb thing to do.

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I'm pretty sure everyone in this thread agrees on that. If he thought it was dumb he would not have done it.

 

[TorianElecdra]

Damn, such an unnecesary death. Rest in peace.

 

[hikarutilmitt]

This sounds cute and fun, but is a gender reveal party where everyone lives really a gender reveal party at all? :)

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We actually coopted Mother's Day that year, hahaha. It wasn't a specific gender reveal party we just tacked our thing on since it was the only time everyone was there.

 

[excelsiorlef]

Waiting for the person who builds a thermonuclear bomb with "it's a boy" on it.

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"It's a Little Boy"

 

[Poppy]

i mean its sad for the kid but its not like i feel anything, they fucked up while doing something i find stupid and thats about the only impact it makes on my life

theres something about the idea of this real misery coming from something thats so utterly banal and ridiculous that just like....makes me feel detached from the human experience for lack of being able to find any other emotions in it

 

[Riddler]

Have some friends over. Have some balloons and cake. Reveal GENDER. Everyone eats cake. 1 too many people dead over this.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

It'll be a little boy.

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"It's a Little Boy"

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Good posts

 

[Legacy]

Might have something to do with Europeans not readily having access to high-explosives.

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Lol true

 

[Chopchop]

Completely pointless.

All this one-upping isn't even for the kid. It's just to show off on social media. And now that tacky posturing bullshit is costing lives.

 

[KhandoleezzaRice]

What is gender-reveal device? I'm not familiar with these kind of parties and devices.

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The parties are an excuse to throw a bbq or a get together where the "main event" is revealing a color that corresponds to whether you're having a boy or girl. It could be the color of confetti hidden in balloons that you pop, or maybe the color of frosting inside a cupcake, or even just a sign that gets unfurled. Some people want to up the theatrics and make productions out of it like shooting fireworks or in this case, manually building an explosive device.

At a small scale it's pretty fun and harmless but you end up with people who try to do things that at the very least should be handled by a professional. People have been killing themselves over stupid things for a long time though. They'll kill or injure themselves ingesting ground cinnamon and tide pods, or planking on their balcony 7th floor balcony, or making horrible YouTube prank videos, or any other dumb thing that's going to catch on in the future.

 

[Mgs2master2]

Maybe this is true... Wife and I aren't on social media at all and have absolutely zero desire to do a fucking party to reveal our child's gender.

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i fully expect a forum post of epic proportions

 

[Balphon]

"It's a Little Boy"

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Be a little worried if it were a Fat Man.

 

[pewpewtora]

people really need to stop fucking around with explosives. Leave that shit to professionals.

 

[Soda]

Am I wrong or should these be called sex reveal parties?

Genuine question and not meant to offend. But like, we're learning biological sex only, right?

 

[Pet]

I'm having my first baby, and while I did neither a baby shower nor a gender reveal (and may not even do a baby registry -- also, we didn't have a bridal shower, wedding, or wedding registry, and donated all the money from my work for our work-sponsored engagement party to sponsor a child overseas).... some of y'all need to chill with your weird hate of other people's gender reveal or baby showers or whatever parties.

It's sad that he died, even worse over something like this.

 

[Delicious Waffles]

I have a baby coming in August. I just wanted to post whatever its gender is on social media be done with it. My wife wants to do a gender reveal type deal with one of these mechanisms. Obviously, not blowing something up but still, I'm not feeling it.

 

[Deleted member 9241]

A woman gorilla glues her hair and people bend over backwards with excuses and threads get locked for calling her an idiot. But when a dude accidentally kills himself at a gender reveal party and all bets are off man!

 

[Khanimus]

What an utterly pointless way to die.

But hey, congrats on leaving your wife and unborn child behind because you wanted some pyro.

 

[Slayven]

DHS going to start putting these on the domestic terror list

 

[aerach71]

Why do americans seem to have such easy access to fisile material

 

[BassForever]

I got a homemade oreo with blue sprinkles inside from my sister, that was the extent of her reveal party. I didn't even know she was pregnant until then.

 

[aerach71]

A woman gorilla glues her hair and people bend over backwards with excuses and threads get locked for calling her an idiot. But when a dude accidentally kills himself at a gender reveal party and all bets are off man!

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I mean, the gorilla glue thing was a very innocent mistake based on mixing up two products

 

[HockeyBird]

One of these days, a soldier will be awarded the Medal of Honor for jumping on a sex reveal grenade, saving the lives of dozens.

 

[Poppy]

some of y'all need to chill with your weird hate of other people's gender reveal or baby showers or whatever parties.

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i mean respectfully no we don't

if people wanna do them, me hating on them online isnt gonna change that fact so why should that matter

 

[Crossing Eden]

The entire concept of a gender reveal party is just completely asinine to me

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[DiipuSurotu]

I mean, the gorilla glue thing was a very innocent mistake based on mixing up two products

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No, she didn't mix anything. She purposely used Gorilla Glue because she ran out of her normal product and thought the glue wouldn't be all that hard to wash away.

 

[Matrix XII]

My wife wanted to do a gender reveal. Wasn't really my cup of tea, but was grateful all she wanted was to buy cupcakes with pink filling and drop them off to her parents, lol.

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That's what we did too.

such a tragedy for the wife and the unborn child :(

 

[Deleted member 2809]

Good parenting

 

[aerach71]

No, she didn't mix anything. She purposely used Gorilla Glue because she ran out of her normal product and thought the glue wouldn't be all that hard to wash away.

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Oh ok maybe I misread something, there's another product she uses that was gorilla something right?

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Oh ok maybe I misread something, there's another product she uses that was gorilla something right?

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Nope. There's another product in the world that has Gorilla in its name, but it's not what she had in her home. In her home she had her normal hair product and the Gorilla Glue product (probably stored in her garage or whatever).

 

[SAINT_]

This was obviously a terrible mistake with little more to discuss, and due to the level of distress involved and the need for empathy and assistance rather than mockery, this thread is closed to further replies.

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This was the lock reason for one of the Gorilla Glue threads. Going by that, this one should be closed too.

 

[Kyrios]

And in 2019, a 56-year-old grandmother was killed when her family made a pipe bomb that exploded while planning a gender-reveal event. The family had gathered at their home to experiment with different types of explosives so they could film the announcement for social media.

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[Cation]

Hard fact about gender reveal mechanisms, no one cares. They just come for the party.

Such a shame in this case.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

This was the lock reason for one of the Gorilla Glue threads. Going by that, this one should be closed too.

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Why don't you report the thread then

 

[dhlt25]

gender reveal and all those baby parties are so dumb. I don't give a shit about your baby

 

[Soupman Prime]

Feel like texting this story and the countless others to my sister who's expecting. Just seems so silly, I been to one gender reveal party and there were no explosives and nothing crazy. Just sad a child loses their parent because of this. When are these accidents going to make people rethink their crazy plans because they keep happening.

 

[Gigglepoo]

Gotta start prosecuting people who have dangerous gender reveal parties. Yeah, Dawin awards and all that, but these idiots aren't just endangering their own lives.

 

[MechaJackie]

A woman gorilla glues her hair and people bend over backwards with excuses and threads get locked for calling her an idiot. But when a dude accidentally kills himself at a gender reveal party and all bets are off man!

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I mean, "woman gorilla glues her hair" is a very specific thing, you're talking about a specific individual which this has happened to.
"Dude kills himself with military grade explosives at sex reveal party" is an epidemic, no one is actually talking about X or Y person, this thing keeps happening every other week, at this point this an epidemic with a kill count higher than some (very minor) wars lol, people are mostly going "how the fuck does this keep happening"