Buckle up, dear reader, because our first gender reveal party story of 2020 is one truly plump with plot twists; a tale of deceit and anger.
The last few years have seen the canny celebration of announcing what genitals a foetus has in front of friends and family really take off.
Sometimes literally, as the world witnessed plane crashes , two explosions , Jell-O-filled hippos , runaway balloons , blue lasagne , a thousand acre-sized wildfire and ‘gendered’ fog spewing from a car doing doughnuts in a cul-de-sac ending in four arrests.
The act has, overtime, reached Super Bowl Halftime show-level theatrics.
Kicking-off the decade is a since-removed reddit post , in which a woman asked the 'Am I The A-Hole' subreddit whether she's a bad person for "booing" at her friend's gender reveal party.
But it's not quite for the reasons you're expecting.
'Am I The A**hole for loudly booing at a friend's gender reveal party?'
The 30-year-old woman began her post, according to a screenshot on Twitter , with detailing how she drove 45 minutes outside of the city to reach a workmate's party.
"In the first place," she wrote, "I find this to be an obnoxious new fad, but I try to be a good sport for the sake of my work relationship."
Being the great workmate she is, she got dressed up, bought a gift and even grabbed a bottle of wine for the hosts; "I am trying."
https://twitter.com/AITA_reddit/status/1218165330566156289
We know, u/traditional-flower, we know.
As the main event began, she described how the parents-to-be stood in front of a box that will reveal which assigned gender their child will be.
"They pull a string, the box falls apart, confetti, streamers, etcetera, and there reads a message: 'Unassigned!'
"There are audible groans, a few woke claps.
"They launch into a polemic about gender and their decision not to assign their child a gender.
"I begin, loudly, playfully booing. No one joins in.
"A few people pull me aside later in the night to lecture, others to thank me.
"Now, I don't begrudge them raising their child however they want, and I don't have anything against trans people.
"But I thought bringing us so far out of our way, under the already lame pretence of a gender reveal, and then using it as an opportunity to posture and preach was lame, insincere and a**hole-ish in the extreme."
End scene.
The reddit user divided Twitter, prompting a laundry bag of reactions.
Some users praised the parents for opting to raise their child gender-neutral, while others agreed that anyone who has a gender reveal party is an "a**hole".
https://twitter.com/chrisiousity/status/1218175203034980352
https://twitter.com/sgtjanedoe/status/1218180505356722177
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1218167022875480064
https://twitter.com/MrsFreudPrefect/status/1218167197106831362
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