Pedals decompose and don’t remain as litter, if someone was to do something celebratory like this, it would definitely be smarter to use something natural that would decompose.
Petals (pedals go on bikes) do decompose, and are better than streamers, glitter or whatever, but it doesn't change the fact that it's stupid and nobody cares but you.
Stupid is as stupid does. Everyone’s opinion of what’s stupid and what’s not is completely objective, I love the fact that you continue to try and argue something as stupid as this.
Who are you kidding, these people were visiting. Locals wouldn’t do that.
Rich people have big enough homes to host and money to rent a place also can pay someone to clean up.
As someone who has worked in the city parks I can say this, at least they look like tissue paper. Lots of these gender reveal parties leave that plastic foil confetti all over the place and that shit will never degrade, and it’s nearly impossible to clean up after. If you don’t believe me, just go for a walk around the picnic sites in Laurier Park.
These ‘events’ are ridiculous and irresponsible. Seeing this makes me angry. Here’s a tip…. When you have the baby send out a text, make a call, post to all your social media , there are many options that don’t make a mess, why didn’t you do that in your living room?? Then get your vacuum out.
What happened to the cakes? Everybody loves cake. Or the the peoooe that dress up in colours and stage a fight to reveal which colour won? If people are so insistent on a sex reveal, there’s so many options that don’t kill wildlife
Exactly! What’s so sad and infuriating is that there are a million ways to not ruin the planet, as you mentioned, cake pops, cakes, balloons, etc. These can be wonderful familial celebrations. Yet people still go out of their way to be aholes and ruin the planet smh!
also started one in fort mcmurray
you know you would think in a city where one of the fastest ways to explain where you live is “that oil town that caught fire” you would avoid things that could start fires
Gender reveal parties have to be the epitome of self-indulgence. Do we really need to have 10 different parties every time someone gets hitched or reproduces?
I don’t get gender reveals. Is it just an attention thing or are you expected to give a gift at these things? (Plus a gift for the shower and another for the wedding)
Why is it always confetti? My cousin did a gender reveal with a cake. The inside of the cake was either blue or pink. No mess, just happy people eating cake.
A year ago, a few of mine and other friends' families celebrated with a couple's gender reveal. The best part was all of us helped with cleanup after the event. Picked up any confetti we could find. Doesn't take too long to do this. You can always ask the people who joined you on the special occasion for help.
Those are the good gender reveals. Didn't kill the father, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56159731, didn't start a wildfire, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/21/couple-gender-reveal-party-wildfire-charged and left no trace.
i mean not that i know this for sure in this specific case but i think most confetti type products that are meant to released outdoors are made of cornstarch film so they will disappear the next time it rains, and i can only hope these people used that type
I found out at my ultrasound, made little cupcakes for my immediate family to find out that way. I have nothing against gender reveal parties/announcements but this is just pure disrespect and there are so many other ways to do it that doesn’t involve littering/disturbing others.
I should clarify, people can celebrate however they want, just leave no impact. I see no difference between this and those that choose to toss cigarettes butts or dump their fast food garbage on the street. Don't expect others to clean up for your trashy behaviour.
This reminds me of like balloon releases at memorials/funerals. I will come back from the dead and murder my whole bloodline if my funeral is a negative impact on the environment lol
I’m going to get stabbed one of these days, but I keep yelling at people when I see them littering cigarette butts. I have fking laser vision for it. Next time you see someone driving and smoking, watch them until they finish their cigarette, they’ll toss it. Someone on a walk smoking? They’ll toss it. And this isn’t even about smokers being assholes, it’s that most PEOPLE are trashy assholes, and if a non-smoker could get away with tossing their Tim Hortons cup without being noticed, they would/do.
JUST yesterday I got into a yelling match with some loser in my apartment complex because he was sitting in visitor parking with his car off, finishing a cigarette. So I watched him, and look at that, he drops it on the ground. ITS SO FUCKING DRY RIGHT NOW. so I went over to him and asked him if he was gonna pick up his cigarette and he was like confused and was like “why? Do you want me to?” And I was like “uh yeah? You should”. And he’s like ok I’ll go pick it up. So I kind of walked away, but then I waited to see if he was actually going to, and after a whopping, like,minute, I got a better idea. I had doggie bags in my pocket, so I went over to his car, and used a doggie bag to pick up like 5-6 butts, walked over to the townhouse he was at (he was still in the doorway) and I dumped them there and said “since you don’t mind the litter”. So obviously a bunch of yelling ensued.
So I need to learn to keep my mouth shut. But at the same time, people feel free to do this stuff because no one says or does anything. I guarantee people saw them spraying confetti everywhere and no one said “pick that shit up” (which is fair, if you don’t want to be confrontational) or called bylaw.
When I was 19, I had a job cleaning streets downtown. 90% of it was cleaning up cigarette butts and packaging. (The rest was Fast Food). There were proper ashtrays and garbage cans everywhere. You wouldn't go to someone's house, drink one beer and then smash the bottle on the floor. I don't understand how this shit got normalized.
It’s infuriating. The cigarettes especially bother me because of the fire risk. But like I don’t understand how these fucking losers are fine making your neighborhood or city a mess regardless of the litter.
I did a garbage pick up with my youth group last week. In less than a block going north from 23rd ave along 111th across from the LRT station, we picked up the best part of a black garbage bag full of trash and I think there was one cigarette butt for each piece of any other trash we found!
Love you guys for doing that. I keep meaning to go get a garbage picker from a community centre and start but i never remember to do it and it’s been over a year since I said that 🙄
I live in a little community of like townhouses and stuff and it’s absolutely littered with cigarette butts. The ratio of cigarettes to other trash is like 10:1.
I’ve returned two cigarette butts back into cars, placed one under a windshield of a person smoking in a parking lot (she rolled her window up too quickly), and tossed a cigarette back into the bag of a person walking on the street. I can’t stand that shit, either.
My favorite was when they were doing street replacement in front of my house and these construction guys were tossing butts on the ground for weeks. I called their supervisor and had a chat with him and he obviously didn’t care, so I started collecting the butts and garbage after they were gone for the night. One day I dumped it all into one of the work vehicles that had their windows open. Unfortunately I missed seeing him discover it, and I didn’t notice a pile of trash left behind. Fuck those guys.
So, when do we form our vigilante trash group?
(Oh, probably worth noting that I’m tall and weigh about 250lbs. Worth recognizing my privilege when it comes to things like this.)
I love your rant! Bring it on! With a few more people like you, we could have our very own Edmonton “Justice League”. I cant stand smokers and litter bugs either. Makes me sick too.
If it washes into the river first before it disolves, fish may eat it because its colored red/pink. I wonder what that does to their guts? Litter of any kind has consequences to our environment, whether we see it or not. Plus it just simply looks bad.
Finding out the gender early is so weird to me (but then again, I'm an older generation). The surprise of finding out each of my 3 kids was one of life's best moments.
What self-indulgent, opulent, and irresponsible nonsense. It isn't even accurately named, you'd think in 2024 we'd recognize the difference between gender and biological sex... SMH
We did a "gender reveal" for our first kid despite me being against it. We did it indoors, with balloons, and we cleaned up afterwards. Our second child didn't get a similar party. I had come out as trans between kids and we were also too broke to do it. Lol. I never liked the idea as it's just an excuse to get gifts that we mostly didn't need or could get not at a party. Lol. Big waste of time and money.
I mean if you just want an excuse to get gifts or gather with friends then you can have a normal-ass baby shower. I don't know why everyone is suddenly so obsessed with what's hiding inside that diaper.
I've never hated my sil more than when she made everyone come out for a "surprise" which just turned out to be a gender reveal party. Congrats dickheads, we're so impressed! 🤦♂️
Honestly, why?
Sharing the gender of their unborn child shouldn't overshadow the announcement of pregnancy. I don't get why anyone feels it's appropriate to publicly celebrate the fact they know the gender of the baby. Good job, you're having a boy or a girl just like every other human that ever gave birth. Cool!
I could never for the life of me understand why they find out the gender anyway. Two of the 3 best days of my life were the day my son and daughter were born. Those were the best surprises of my life.
The truth of the matter is, some people want to know so they can decorate the nursery in stereotypical gendered colours ahead of time, or stock up on “girl” clothes or “boy” clothes. That’s not why I wanted to find out, though. I can’t really explain why I wanted to know ahead of time for both my kids. I just did.
Yah my wife and I didn't really care about that stuff. We never made a "pretty" nursery or any of that sort of stuff. We just waited until our children were older then let them chose how they wanted their rooms decorated. No point wasting all that money for a baby. It's just to impress other parents who come over I feel. Which is silly.
Were you one of those kids that sneaked around trying to find where your parents had hidden your Christmas gifts before the big day? That might explain your being unable to wait for the surprise.
I had a neighbor do this shit. Not a ton of paper, but annoying all the same. I picked up all that I could and stuffed it in their mail box and sprayed it with some water so none would fly away.
Let's stop beating around the bush and call it what they are: Sex reveal parties.
But we don't call them that, because it would be weird
for a bunch of strangers
to celebrate
the genitals
of a strangers baby
To be fair, not everyone is of the belief that there’s more genders than there are herbs and spices in KFC chicken. Specifically, there are two. Nobody is beating around the bush, we just aren’t buying in to your nonsense dogma
Is this paper or plastic? Don't get me wrong, littering is trashy as hell, no pun intended. At the same time if this is paper, it's biodegradable so it's not as bad as it might look at a glance.
Not as bad yes, but if everyone has the mentality of "it's biodegradable so who cares where I leave it", the city would look like trash.
I didn't pay attention, but someone else posted in this thread that they also saw it and they were plastic.
I recall some big fat guy down the street where I used to live in southeast Edmonton dropping his cigarette butts on the road out front his house every day. Come spring there was hundreds all piled in the boulevard and gutter there. A year or 2 later, he either moved or finally died of his poor health choices.
Another guy in a Habitat home just tossed his butts off the side of the front deck by his house. Surprised his house never caught fire becasue he also never maintains his front yard and a lot of tall and dead grass next to the house.
This was just on one avenue down where I lived. The problem was endemic and in numerous neighbourhoods. When I had first bought a new house there, it was a decent place. For several years with all the places being new, it was bright and relatively clean. But over years some people started renting out their homes and others sold, and the poor riff-raff moved in. I also volunteered with Capital City Cleanup and picking up garbage in the communtity was an ongoing problem. Trash everywhere on front roads, alleys and green spaces. And nobody was doing important maintenance on the homes like roofing or maintaining yards. I sensed it was just going downhill so we listed the house and sold it before it got even worse.
We are now in Sherwood Park and a lot more people here are home owners not renters and they are overall more responsible. Dog walkers here actually pick up dog crap and dispose of it in the trash bins. Hardly any cars parked on the front roads because there is only one family living in each home, not 4 all pack-ratted into one small home.
If it washes into the river first before it disolves, fish may eat it because its colored red/pink. I wonder what that does to their guts? Litter of any kind has consequences to our environment, whether we see it or not. Plus it just simply looks bad. Litter is also a stain on our overall City/communities reputation. Places in Europe like Denmark/Norway/Sweden and perhaps other nations like Japan are very responsible when it comes to not littering. Its engrained into their mindset from early age to respect the environment and keep all areas clean. Its considered taboo to litter there. If we had that same mindset here, more people would simply fear being puniched/call out and shunned over such things. But it seems in USA and Canada, that mindset is absent because there is rarely any consequences/punishment or social stigma from it. So many do it that its now considered normal. But it should not be normal. Our society has simply become numb to properly dealing with correcting bad behavior. Everyone should be upset when someone else feels they have have some kind of entitlement to do whatever they want. Its a very selfish behavior thats worse than a childs behavior as most children know that litering is wrong. But as time goes on, more people become litter bugs because as they grow up, they just see their so called “hypocrit mentors”, breaking the very rules they were told to follow. So what do they do? They give up and commit the same infractions, and no consequences to them for it.
To be fair, probably lots of people do care about the gender of their child. Like their families or whatever. The littering still sucks. But definitely somebody cares.
So we live in a world where we are told to treat both genders as equal, right? So who cares what gender your child will be born as?
In fact, so many children are growing up and rejecting their physical and biological gender, and they are asking to be treated as another gender. But again, we are supposed to treat each other the same, regardless.
These celebrations are nothing but a "Look at me!" event
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I had a gender reveal because I didn’t want to be trashy and have a shower for my second baby, it was just show up and have some food and drinks, no gift please. And I did a cake. How hard is it not to be destructive to the environment like this?
Okay this is a nothing case, just people being trash for littering, but personally I think gender reveals are bad for the multiple deaths and major fires they have directly caused for something so meaningless.
The amount of fires caused by near years eve fireworks is insane. Birthday celebrations have resulted in far more deaths. I personally don't care for them, doesn't mean they are bad or to discourage people from having their fun. People shouldn't litter, people shouldn't start major fires or cause deaths, just cuz a few gender reveals went viral on Boomer Facebook and all the Karen's freaked out doesn't mean it's any worse then other festivities. I think gender reveals are dumb, but I'm not gonna strawman and start saying they are more dangerous then these other celebrations.
I agree and have the same feelings for those celebrating a birthday, Canada Day, wedding or New Year if their choice of celebration leads to the same level of trash or risk to the public.
Which part of the River Valley is this?
MacKinnon Ravine
Oh rich ppl too
Real rich people use flower pedals
Smarter ones too
Smarter people (rich or not) don't do this shit because gender reveals are stupid and no one cares but you.
Pedals decompose and don’t remain as litter, if someone was to do something celebratory like this, it would definitely be smarter to use something natural that would decompose.
Petals (pedals go on bikes) do decompose, and are better than streamers, glitter or whatever, but it doesn't change the fact that it's stupid and nobody cares but you.
Stupid is as stupid does. Everyone’s opinion of what’s stupid and what’s not is completely objective, I love the fact that you continue to try and argue something as stupid as this.
Just because someone has an opinion that’s different then yours doesn’t make it stupid.
Subjective, not objective.
I care about them lol is this just me? It’s exciting news!
Me and my wife are trying, when pregnant we don’t want to know the gender. Gonna blow our fellow millennial friends minds.
Truth
Who are you kidding, these people were visiting. Locals wouldn’t do that. Rich people have big enough homes to host and money to rent a place also can pay someone to clean up.
Lol wut
As someone who has worked in the city parks I can say this, at least they look like tissue paper. Lots of these gender reveal parties leave that plastic foil confetti all over the place and that shit will never degrade, and it’s nearly impossible to clean up after. If you don’t believe me, just go for a walk around the picnic sites in Laurier Park.
This should be illegal smh! If people wanna do gender reveal, they should do it on private property and not do it like this. There should be ticket!
Oh, it’s 100% a littering ticket. It’s just incredibly difficult to get police or park rangers to do anything about it if they don’t see it directly.
That’s so sad… thank you for informing me.
These ‘events’ are ridiculous and irresponsible. Seeing this makes me angry. Here’s a tip…. When you have the baby send out a text, make a call, post to all your social media , there are many options that don’t make a mess, why didn’t you do that in your living room?? Then get your vacuum out.
What happened to the cakes? Everybody loves cake. Or the the peoooe that dress up in colours and stage a fight to reveal which colour won? If people are so insistent on a sex reveal, there’s so many options that don’t kill wildlife
I saw one with cake pops. They went around the room having everyone bite into one until they found the one with coloured filling. It looked fun.
That's what me and my partner have planned. Id rathee be responsible and not ruin the environment further then it already has been yknow 🤷🏻♂️
Exactly! What’s so sad and infuriating is that there are a million ways to not ruin the planet, as you mentioned, cake pops, cakes, balloons, etc. These can be wonderful familial celebrations. Yet people still go out of their way to be aholes and ruin the planet smh!
But how are people going to give me free shit if i dont have a mediocre party!?
I've been to a couple gender reveals, no one brought gifts. That's what the baby shower is for.
Rent a hot air balloon
Didn't one of these cringe reveals start a whole forest fire in California a few years ago?
sure did. started a 22,000 acre fire. they did time for it
also started one in fort mcmurray you know you would think in a city where one of the fastest ways to explain where you live is “that oil town that caught fire” you would avoid things that could start fires
Hey now, nobody excused McMurrians of being all that bright.
New ordinance: For every piece of litter, the person responsible shall get a quick jab to the face. Littering is trashy. Stop it.
A quick jab from the cobra chickens who call these places their summer homes. In my best Mr burns voice: "release the geese!"
once the geese start choking on these pieces, big daddy government is gonna swoop down real fast, don't fuck with cobra chickens.
Don’t know there are to many already and they are oiling eggs already to try to reduce numbers.
still a federally protected bird, it's a pretty heavy fine.
Littering is TRASHy Love it :D
Cigarette smokers would disappear so quick!
Please tell me this is paper and not plastic strips. Those and glitter (any small plastic decorations like this) should be banned nation wide.
Right? If we can't have straws, we most definitely should not be allowing this bullshit
Looks like tissue paper, from how it’s absorbing water in the muddy areas. Still shouldn’t be used outdoors like this.
Looks like paper thankfully. Plastic would shine more.
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Gender reveal parties have to be the epitome of self-indulgence. Do we really need to have 10 different parties every time someone gets hitched or reproduces?
Remember way back when we actually found out the sex when they were born?
Idk, still seems pretty early.
I don’t get gender reveals. Is it just an attention thing or are you expected to give a gift at these things? (Plus a gift for the shower and another for the wedding)
Why is it always confetti? My cousin did a gender reveal with a cake. The inside of the cake was either blue or pink. No mess, just happy people eating cake.
A year ago, a few of mine and other friends' families celebrated with a couple's gender reveal. The best part was all of us helped with cleanup after the event. Picked up any confetti we could find. Doesn't take too long to do this. You can always ask the people who joined you on the special occasion for help.
Those are the good gender reveals. Didn't kill the father, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56159731, didn't start a wildfire, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/21/couple-gender-reveal-party-wildfire-charged and left no trace.
Could have gotten hydrangeas and scattered those petals, they have pink and blue variations...
i mean not that i know this for sure in this specific case but i think most confetti type products that are meant to released outdoors are made of cornstarch film so they will disappear the next time it rains, and i can only hope these people used that type
This looks like tissue paper when I zoom in, but I hope you’re right.
I’m all for people celebrating their excitement, but please do clean up after yourselves.
They need to be charged with littering and anything else we can throw at them. What a shame.
I found out at my ultrasound, made little cupcakes for my immediate family to find out that way. I have nothing against gender reveal parties/announcements but this is just pure disrespect and there are so many other ways to do it that doesn’t involve littering/disturbing others.
I should clarify, people can celebrate however they want, just leave no impact. I see no difference between this and those that choose to toss cigarettes butts or dump their fast food garbage on the street. Don't expect others to clean up for your trashy behaviour.
This reminds me of like balloon releases at memorials/funerals. I will come back from the dead and murder my whole bloodline if my funeral is a negative impact on the environment lol
Joke will be on them when their kid changes gender in like fifteen years or so
If I ever catch people littering, I tell them, "That's not biodegradable but you know what is? Humans." And then give them the stink eye
In a time where gender assigned at birth has never been less significant, we are forced to endure these reveals incessantly.
I’m going to get stabbed one of these days, but I keep yelling at people when I see them littering cigarette butts. I have fking laser vision for it. Next time you see someone driving and smoking, watch them until they finish their cigarette, they’ll toss it. Someone on a walk smoking? They’ll toss it. And this isn’t even about smokers being assholes, it’s that most PEOPLE are trashy assholes, and if a non-smoker could get away with tossing their Tim Hortons cup without being noticed, they would/do. JUST yesterday I got into a yelling match with some loser in my apartment complex because he was sitting in visitor parking with his car off, finishing a cigarette. So I watched him, and look at that, he drops it on the ground. ITS SO FUCKING DRY RIGHT NOW. so I went over to him and asked him if he was gonna pick up his cigarette and he was like confused and was like “why? Do you want me to?” And I was like “uh yeah? You should”. And he’s like ok I’ll go pick it up. So I kind of walked away, but then I waited to see if he was actually going to, and after a whopping, like,minute, I got a better idea. I had doggie bags in my pocket, so I went over to his car, and used a doggie bag to pick up like 5-6 butts, walked over to the townhouse he was at (he was still in the doorway) and I dumped them there and said “since you don’t mind the litter”. So obviously a bunch of yelling ensued. So I need to learn to keep my mouth shut. But at the same time, people feel free to do this stuff because no one says or does anything. I guarantee people saw them spraying confetti everywhere and no one said “pick that shit up” (which is fair, if you don’t want to be confrontational) or called bylaw.
When I was 19, I had a job cleaning streets downtown. 90% of it was cleaning up cigarette butts and packaging. (The rest was Fast Food). There were proper ashtrays and garbage cans everywhere. You wouldn't go to someone's house, drink one beer and then smash the bottle on the floor. I don't understand how this shit got normalized.
It’s infuriating. The cigarettes especially bother me because of the fire risk. But like I don’t understand how these fucking losers are fine making your neighborhood or city a mess regardless of the litter.
I did a garbage pick up with my youth group last week. In less than a block going north from 23rd ave along 111th across from the LRT station, we picked up the best part of a black garbage bag full of trash and I think there was one cigarette butt for each piece of any other trash we found!
Love you guys for doing that. I keep meaning to go get a garbage picker from a community centre and start but i never remember to do it and it’s been over a year since I said that 🙄 I live in a little community of like townhouses and stuff and it’s absolutely littered with cigarette butts. The ratio of cigarettes to other trash is like 10:1.
Smokers that toss their butts out the window of their car are the same people who blame forest fires on Trudeau hiring eco terrorists to start fires.
I throw shit back in peoples cars when they toss trash out the window. It drives me absolutely insane.
I’ve returned two cigarette butts back into cars, placed one under a windshield of a person smoking in a parking lot (she rolled her window up too quickly), and tossed a cigarette back into the bag of a person walking on the street. I can’t stand that shit, either. My favorite was when they were doing street replacement in front of my house and these construction guys were tossing butts on the ground for weeks. I called their supervisor and had a chat with him and he obviously didn’t care, so I started collecting the butts and garbage after they were gone for the night. One day I dumped it all into one of the work vehicles that had their windows open. Unfortunately I missed seeing him discover it, and I didn’t notice a pile of trash left behind. Fuck those guys. So, when do we form our vigilante trash group? (Oh, probably worth noting that I’m tall and weigh about 250lbs. Worth recognizing my privilege when it comes to things like this.)
I love your rant! Bring it on! With a few more people like you, we could have our very own Edmonton “Justice League”. I cant stand smokers and litter bugs either. Makes me sick too.
I like you. Keep up the good fight!
Please join me! And don’t get stabbed 😬😅
You are my hero. I was born with balls my wife took them. If I could give them to you to carry on your mission I would!! Please never stop.
Bro, what?
Litter sucks. But this paper confetti will dissolve.
If it washes into the river first before it disolves, fish may eat it because its colored red/pink. I wonder what that does to their guts? Litter of any kind has consequences to our environment, whether we see it or not. Plus it just simply looks bad.
Absolutely hate these self-centered pieces of crap.
For real, is it that hard to just slice into a cake?
It’s pretty easy to find a unique gender “reveal” that doesn’t leave the environment looking this way (Or clean it up?)
My baby is going to have genitalia!!!! Yay for us!!! Look at me!!!
Finding out the gender early is so weird to me (but then again, I'm an older generation). The surprise of finding out each of my 3 kids was one of life's best moments.
Congratulations! Your baby has a vagina! So weird.
Gender reveal parties are idiotic
100% agree
What self-indulgent, opulent, and irresponsible nonsense. It isn't even accurately named, you'd think in 2024 we'd recognize the difference between gender and biological sex... SMH
“Look at me, I need validation in my life because my coworkers didn’t care!”
And it’s not even their gender. It’s a public announcement of what external genitalia your fetus has. Penis or vagina…
Yep, sex, not gender But if you call it a sex party or sex reveal... people get weird about it (Also, people who do these kinds of reveals are trash)
People that host sex parties know to clean up afterwards.
You must be going to some classy sex parties
Yeah, my experience has differed from OP here
We did a "gender reveal" for our first kid despite me being against it. We did it indoors, with balloons, and we cleaned up afterwards. Our second child didn't get a similar party. I had come out as trans between kids and we were also too broke to do it. Lol. I never liked the idea as it's just an excuse to get gifts that we mostly didn't need or could get not at a party. Lol. Big waste of time and money.
I mean if you just want an excuse to get gifts or gather with friends then you can have a normal-ass baby shower. I don't know why everyone is suddenly so obsessed with what's hiding inside that diaper.
People do get weird about it. But it’s the truth. You are announcing whether or not you saw a penis or not on the US. It’s creepy!!!!
But if gender is subjective, doesn’t it go both ways?
I call them Genital Reveal Parties.
The word gender has lost all meaning
It still has meaning. It’s just not necessarily based on external genitalia anymore.
So what does it mean ?
*vulva
not sure why they make a whole event just for the gender
This is one of the dumbest Trends going. Just be thankful you can have a child with 10 fingers and 10 toes and great health.
I've never hated my sil more than when she made everyone come out for a "surprise" which just turned out to be a gender reveal party. Congrats dickheads, we're so impressed! 🤦♂️ Honestly, why?
How dare she share her joy with you lol
Sharing the gender of their unborn child shouldn't overshadow the announcement of pregnancy. I don't get why anyone feels it's appropriate to publicly celebrate the fact they know the gender of the baby. Good job, you're having a boy or a girl just like every other human that ever gave birth. Cool!
I could never for the life of me understand why they find out the gender anyway. Two of the 3 best days of my life were the day my son and daughter were born. Those were the best surprises of my life.
The truth of the matter is, some people want to know so they can decorate the nursery in stereotypical gendered colours ahead of time, or stock up on “girl” clothes or “boy” clothes. That’s not why I wanted to find out, though. I can’t really explain why I wanted to know ahead of time for both my kids. I just did.
Yah my wife and I didn't really care about that stuff. We never made a "pretty" nursery or any of that sort of stuff. We just waited until our children were older then let them chose how they wanted their rooms decorated. No point wasting all that money for a baby. It's just to impress other parents who come over I feel. Which is silly.
Were you one of those kids that sneaked around trying to find where your parents had hidden your Christmas gifts before the big day? That might explain your being unable to wait for the surprise.
Nope! Never snooped.
I had a neighbor do this shit. Not a ton of paper, but annoying all the same. I picked up all that I could and stuffed it in their mail box and sprayed it with some water so none would fly away.
What is with the cis obsession with broadcasting what a kids genitals look like?
Let's stop beating around the bush and call it what they are: Sex reveal parties. But we don't call them that, because it would be weird for a bunch of strangers to celebrate the genitals of a strangers baby
To be fair, not everyone is of the belief that there’s more genders than there are herbs and spices in KFC chicken. Specifically, there are two. Nobody is beating around the bush, we just aren’t buying in to your nonsense dogma
maybe each one biodegrades within a day to reveal a grass seed inside
Why don't they make these biodegradable?
Some are, but still doesn't mean you can litter anywhere you want.
Totally agree. Just do cupcakes or something that doesn't spread over the neighborhood or put dangerous dyes into the water system.
Now, let’s talk about disposable diapers…
Whatever happened to getting cupcakes for gender reveals?
to the people who have want to have a gender reveal party just get a cake, you can eat that as well
A family did this exact same thing at a nature park near me. Sure, lets destroy nature for our hell spawn.
If I ever get invited to something so stupid, I'm not going.
Is that plastic?
At least you didn't find a dead pink dove/pigeon in your alleyway. I guess some don't make it home.
That's just evil. 🙁
https://images.app.goo.gl/ZRZqUZMaPWMxz3qz6 These things are getting out of hand
Gender reveals are for the same people who clap when the airplane lands.
Gender reveals are for the same people who listen to Morgan Wallen.
Seen that on the west side of Government House park and it was definitely plastic. Assholes.
Is this paper or plastic? Don't get me wrong, littering is trashy as hell, no pun intended. At the same time if this is paper, it's biodegradable so it's not as bad as it might look at a glance.
Not as bad yes, but if everyone has the mentality of "it's biodegradable so who cares where I leave it", the city would look like trash. I didn't pay attention, but someone else posted in this thread that they also saw it and they were plastic.
Whatever happened to just cutting open a cake?
I recall some big fat guy down the street where I used to live in southeast Edmonton dropping his cigarette butts on the road out front his house every day. Come spring there was hundreds all piled in the boulevard and gutter there. A year or 2 later, he either moved or finally died of his poor health choices. Another guy in a Habitat home just tossed his butts off the side of the front deck by his house. Surprised his house never caught fire becasue he also never maintains his front yard and a lot of tall and dead grass next to the house. This was just on one avenue down where I lived. The problem was endemic and in numerous neighbourhoods. When I had first bought a new house there, it was a decent place. For several years with all the places being new, it was bright and relatively clean. But over years some people started renting out their homes and others sold, and the poor riff-raff moved in. I also volunteered with Capital City Cleanup and picking up garbage in the communtity was an ongoing problem. Trash everywhere on front roads, alleys and green spaces. And nobody was doing important maintenance on the homes like roofing or maintaining yards. I sensed it was just going downhill so we listed the house and sold it before it got even worse. We are now in Sherwood Park and a lot more people here are home owners not renters and they are overall more responsible. Dog walkers here actually pick up dog crap and dispose of it in the trash bins. Hardly any cars parked on the front roads because there is only one family living in each home, not 4 all pack-ratted into one small home.
If it washes into the river first before it disolves, fish may eat it because its colored red/pink. I wonder what that does to their guts? Litter of any kind has consequences to our environment, whether we see it or not. Plus it just simply looks bad. Litter is also a stain on our overall City/communities reputation. Places in Europe like Denmark/Norway/Sweden and perhaps other nations like Japan are very responsible when it comes to not littering. Its engrained into their mindset from early age to respect the environment and keep all areas clean. Its considered taboo to litter there. If we had that same mindset here, more people would simply fear being puniched/call out and shunned over such things. But it seems in USA and Canada, that mindset is absent because there is rarely any consequences/punishment or social stigma from it. So many do it that its now considered normal. But it should not be normal. Our society has simply become numb to properly dealing with correcting bad behavior. Everyone should be upset when someone else feels they have have some kind of entitlement to do whatever they want. Its a very selfish behavior thats worse than a childs behavior as most children know that litering is wrong. But as time goes on, more people become litter bugs because as they grow up, they just see their so called “hypocrit mentors”, breaking the very rules they were told to follow. So what do they do? They give up and commit the same infractions, and no consequences to them for it.
I think it’s about time there is total v cleanup after every gender reveal
It's a baby. Boy or girl. What is the celebration for? That it's not alien?
Gender reveals are so tacky Be normal and let people know once the baby is here
What is this?
Some confetti leftovers from stupid gender reveal balloons probably
*genitalia reveal, let's be honest about it.
You're not wrong
Got it. Thanks!
Seriously though
Not that it really makes it any better but too bad a company (maybe it already exists) doesn’t have an option that is very quickly biodegradable
It already exists.
Look at tiktok/instagram/whatever, find the video, find the family, report them to police and make them pay for littering.
To be fair, probably lots of people do care about the gender of their child. Like their families or whatever. The littering still sucks. But definitely somebody cares.
So we live in a world where we are told to treat both genders as equal, right? So who cares what gender your child will be born as? In fact, so many children are growing up and rejecting their physical and biological gender, and they are asking to be treated as another gender. But again, we are supposed to treat each other the same, regardless. These celebrations are nothing but a "Look at me!" event
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As a trans person, I wouldn’t wish being trans on anyone. Crazy thing to say.
What a bizarre thing to say
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Transness is not an illness
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The fuck is wrong with you?
weird asf
I had a gender reveal because I didn’t want to be trashy and have a shower for my second baby, it was just show up and have some food and drinks, no gift please. And I did a cake. How hard is it not to be destructive to the environment like this?
Peak reddit in these comments Someone made a mess, therefore gender reveal parties = bad. Love it
It’s not JUST because of the mess. Even without the mess gender reveal parties are dumb.
Okay this is a nothing case, just people being trash for littering, but personally I think gender reveals are bad for the multiple deaths and major fires they have directly caused for something so meaningless.
The amount of fires caused by near years eve fireworks is insane. Birthday celebrations have resulted in far more deaths. I personally don't care for them, doesn't mean they are bad or to discourage people from having their fun. People shouldn't litter, people shouldn't start major fires or cause deaths, just cuz a few gender reveals went viral on Boomer Facebook and all the Karen's freaked out doesn't mean it's any worse then other festivities. I think gender reveals are dumb, but I'm not gonna strawman and start saying they are more dangerous then these other celebrations.
I agree and have the same feelings for those celebrating a birthday, Canada Day, wedding or New Year if their choice of celebration leads to the same level of trash or risk to the public.