![]() ![]() On September 25th, 2018, The New York Times Magazine published a piece written by Kwame Anthony Appiah entitled "Should I Go to a Gender-Reveal Party?" in which the writer considers the ethics of attending a gender reveal party. On May 11th, 2016 Jessica Winter wrote a piece for Slate entitled "Are You a Boy or a Girl? It starts with a gender-reveal celebration, and it culminates at the door of a bathroom in North Carolina." In the article, she states that "the gender-reveal phenomenon pulls off a rousing counter-progressive two-for-one: weapons-grade reinforcement of oppressive gender norms (sorry, feminists!) and blunt-force refusal of the idea that sex assigned at birth does not necessarily equate with gender identity (sorry, trans-rights movement!)." The debate continued. The term "gender reveal" often criticized as a misnomer, as all available tests measure the child's sex, which may be distinguished from gender. ![]() Lmaooo /VnLAvvZfB4- Shawn October 8, 2018 The Tweet was gained 2,774 replies, 307,816 retweets and 874,406 likes in a year.īest gender reveal I've seen. The camera then pans to another woman who removes her black wig to signify that the baby is a boy. The video is of an expecting mother popping a balloon that was seemingly expected to reveal the gender of the baby but the balloon was empty. On October 8th, 2018, Twitter user mrsrt392 posted a video with the caption "Best gender reveal I've ever seen" (shown below). Methods used to reveal gender in various videos include the release of balloons from a box, spraying silly string in the air in the color of the gender, cutting into a cake, and setting off colored fireworks, to name a few. The video has over 15 million views and one million likes (shown below). On September 3rd, 2014 Abalabala uploaded the first "Kids React to Baby Gender Reveal Compilation" (shown below).Īs of January 2019, The gender reveal party video with the most views was uploaded by The ACE Family on April 10th, 2018. In 2011, gender reveal videos began to emerge on YouTube. The video has 72,000 views in ten years (shown below). ![]() On October 25th, 2009, YouTuber shelleyblue293 uploaded a video of family and friends cutting into a cake to reveal the sex of the baby. The post was then picked up by parenting magazine The Bump that same year. In 2008, blogger Jenna Karvunidi wrote about hosting a gender reveal party for her first child and posted it to her now deleted blog High Gloss and Sauce. ![]()
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