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Family and Friends’ Frivolous Folly Fans Forest Fire Flames

The blazing California countryside. (Photo courtesy of Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

I sheepishly confess that I did NOT know what a gender reveal party was, and I foolishly thought the worst. Little did I know it was a party thrown by an expecting couple to bring in all their family and friends, and let them file by the refrigerator to have a gander at the grainy, amorphous, ambiguous, ink-blob that is the ultrasound image of the unborn, to try and determine if it has an inny or an outy.

Just another angle for the couple to shake everyone down for one more gift… and then get drunk. When people get drunk, they either go shoot guns or start dicking around with fireworks. The party cost Californians 7,000 acres of forest and then some. A local man asked to comment on the dire situation responded:

“Oh, dude… this whole thing is like, like, like totally — totally — out of tune, maaan! I totally smelled smoke and like, I went outside and I was like… woah dude; this is totally like, WOAHHHHH!”

Here’s the sad part: we used to always have gender reveals, and they were known as “the births” — everyone there knew the gender. Yeah, you see because before ultrasound you just had to port yourself like a stupid moron until you either saw a penis or did not see a penis, the mystery thereupon solved.

Oh, sure… spitting image of her mother and even has her father’s penis.

Then we had the era where ultrasound brought us a reveal of the gender months before birth. But gender reveals and all that crap are moot now. There are no gender reveals any more… not until the kid is born and gets socialized to the extent that he/she knows what gender he/she wants to be — then you have the stupid, stupid, stupid gender reveal party and burn down the state.

But I would caution all y’all folks to go on the cheap or at least get unisex gifts for the gender reveal — something like a 10-flavor Whitman sampler of popcorn or some soap. This is because as soon as the kid gets all dysphoric and confused, wanting to be the other sex because he is a boy and saw another boy who made him feel… funny, thinking maybe it would just be better to be a girl instead and even enjoy that much nicer restrooms. I’m spit-balling here, sort of.