Man Asks Internet If He’s Wrong To Boo At Co-Worker’s “Unassigned” Gender Reveal Party

Some gender reveal parties are already a little much, but this one took things in a stranger direction. A man drove 45 minutes to support a co-worker, brought a gift and wine, and ended up watching the whole event turn into a statement instead of a reveal.

The couple opened a box, confetti flew, and the message inside was not a baby boy or girl, but “Unassigned!” That set off groans, awkward applause, and one guest who decided to boo the whole thing out loud.

Now he is left wondering whether he was rude, or just the only person willing to say what everyone else was thinking.

"I (30 M) drive 45 minutes outside of the city to attend my co-worker's gender reveal party. In the first place, I find this to be an obnoxious new fad, but I try to be a good sport for the sake of my work relationships. I dress up, bring a gift, and a bottle of wine for the party. I am trying."

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He tried to understand, but he was not sympathetic to how hard the couple was attempting… to make a point about gender reveal parties:

After much buildup, the couple stands in front of this box-like structure with the gender reveal hidden inside. They pull a string, the box falls apart, confetti and streamers fly, and there reads a message: “Unassigned!”

That is where the mood in the room shifted fast.

You understood right. No gender was revealed at this gender reveal party. And then the OP got annoyed:

"There are audible groans and a few woke claps. They launch into a polemic about gender and their decision not to assign their child a gender, and I begin loudly, playfully booing. No one joins in. A few people pull me aside later in the night to lecture me, while others thank me."

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"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 pretense 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."

This reminds me of the parent who kept the baby’s gender secret after friends staged an unwanted gender reveal party.

He says the whole thing felt like a bait and switch.

But he reveals that he isn’t sure if it was okay to boo his friends’ beliefs about their baby:

"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 pretense 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."

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Thankfully, the moderators recognized this post as a troll post. 

But just for the sake of argument: what would you do in a situation like this?

This party was never going to end quietly.

Want more fallout, see the mom who refused to tell overbearing in-laws her baby’s gender.