Semantics

Bring a fire extinguisher
- Aha! See, parents have begun to anticipate that! Now, the reveal is executed by the color of sulphuric acid that’s unleashed from a set of industrial containers.
  
  Look, if you can somehow find or synthesise a cyan or pink dye that's stable in sulfuric acid, you can do whatever you want with it.
- Unironically not a bad gift for new parents, TBH.
  
  Not a bad gift for anyone, if a tad impersonal. But a fire extinguisher is something that everyone should own.

"Glad we cleared that up, son. Don't worry, I'll be sure to practice safe sex during the celebratory orgy."

I guess technically sex reveal would be more accurate lmao
- Baby dick or vag reveal party

Unless it's a coming out party, it's not a gender reveal, it's a sex reveal. Which is stupid as I thought we were moving away from sex stereotypes.
- When I first heard about "gender reveal parties" I thought they were coming-out parties for trans people.
- Gender reveals are fucking weird, man. Does anyone do that other than Americans ?
  
  I've been dragged to them here in Canada, but we're kinda America-light, so yea.
  
  Even the person who started the trend called them crazy
- I think some of us are moving away from such stereotypes, and the conservative backlash is moving full speed in a weird direction. As always.
- The Oxford Dictionary says:
  Sex is the biological category, whereas gender is the culturally shaped expression of sexual difference: the masculine way in which men should behave and the feminine way in which women should behave.
  So since it's people talking about the biological male/femaleness they're literally imposing cultural values on it right there, which I think qualifies as gendering.
  
  culturally shaped expression of sexual difference: the masculine way in which men should behave and the feminine way in which women should behave
  (Emphasis mine) This is where I struggle with the difference between sex and gender. I was raised to believe that there is no "should" here. Some biological male people were effeminate; some biological female people, masculine;* and most are a mix, and there's nothing wrong with that. I've always believed that it was a cultural observation, not a cultural obligation that the majority of males were masculine and females feminine.
  I struggle with proper semicolon usage, too.
  
  You're not able to gender someone else though, if someone says they're female, you can't go 'No, you're male'

More accurate than gender reveal really.
- Do you know many people that would throw a gender reveal party and dress the child in purely unisex clothing until they're ready to choose for themselves?
  
  This is interesting because I'm trans and totally the other trans people I hang out with would do the unisex part, but all of us think reveal parties are dumb

Ah yes. Many moons ago, my grandmother would insist on calling my friend that happens to be male, my boyfriend. “Your boyfriend is here!” Thanks grandma. I’m a guy.
- Grandma knew. Hope you're happily married.

Reminds me of older people not realizing what “Netflix and Chill” means. A manager at work once mentioned it when talking about fun weekend activities in a department meeting. Had to bite my tongue after that
- It seems like Lemmy's more about that "Plunder and chill".
  
  It's Lemmy. It's got the same vibe as early reddit. The number of people doing any "chilling" is going to be low, I guarantee it.

Bring lemons and make it a lemonparty.
- As long as she brings Grandpa Richard too. Can't have a lemon party without old Dick.
  
  If I had a nickel for every comment thread of lemon party/old dick jokes in the last 2 days, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened two days in a row.
- And maybe some blue waffles, too?

#TechnicallyTheTruth?

A sex party would be way better than a stupid “gender reveal”. That’s definitely one of the trends of the 2010s I can connect with the least.

Image Transcription: Twitter Post
Balm Threat, @balmthreat
My 72 year-old mother just informed me she is going to her first "sex party" and doesn't know what to bring.
After some delicate questioning, "Gender Reveal, Mom. It's called a Gender Reveal."
- Please flair up as a bot
  
  I'm not a bot. Are you making a joke? I don't understand lol.
- Good human. Thanks

Surely people don't actually bring gifts to those things.

"Yes, mom, it's just a gender reveal party, nothing to worry about."
I will remember this for my next ~~sex~~ gender reveal party 😏
- nothing to worry about
  Except for wildfires.
  
  And bombs.

"Sex Reveal Party" is still open to ambiguity

Mom totally knew what was going on. She was just messing with her son.

I've seen paraphrases of the same thing at least 4 times so far. Multiple mothers confused about the terminology it seems.