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

Gender reveal parties are a story of their own. People are trying to outdo previous couples by adding more and more drama, stunts, and all kinds of theatrics. One cannot help but wonder where it will end?

A thermonuclear device explosion? Would that be impressive enough? It seems as though people are forgetting what they are announcing: a genetic construct that could go either way if the circumstances were different.

And do they feel they should be credited for that, rather than nature?

The moderators of the subreddit r/AmItheA**hole have removed this story for being inflammatory. However, the comments are still visible, and Someecards preserved most of the story before it was removed.

A guy named u/Traditional-Flower talks about a gender reveal party to which he was invited by his co-workers, and how it took an unexpected turn.

"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!”

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."

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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?