• Katana314@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        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.

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        This is more accurate as some intersex conditions aren’t visible at birth or in the womb. Even a sex reveal party has a chance of being wrong

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    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.

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      Gender reveals are fucking weird, man. Does anyone do that other than Americans ?

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.
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        You’re not able to gender someone else though, if someone says they’re female, you can’t go ‘No, you’re male’

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          They can’t say anything though.

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            Studies show newborns don’t have genders. Anyone who says a 1 year old is a boy or a girl is wrong. Factually incorrect.

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              What percentage of children are happy with their biological gender?

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                Zero. Nobody is happy with their biological gender, because nobody has a biological gender, because there’s no such thing. You basically just asked what percentage of children were happy to go to the Loch Ness Monster’s birthday party. You’re a nincompoop who uses scientific language without knowing anything about science. I think a discussion of the themes in The Bachelor is more your level of competence.

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                  Wow you are mad and stupid.

                  You are obviously not worth discussing with.

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      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?

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        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

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          I’m a big fan of governor DeSantis’s law against exposing children to sexual identities in schools. Technically, the law prohibits the words “mister”, “miss”, “he” and “she” in schools. I think making gender an at-home-only thing for students is a great experiment to try. Let’s try it for a generation and see if they grow up with better gender health. Shame Republicans won’t actually enforce their own laws though.

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    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.

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    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

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      As long as she brings Grandpa Richard too. Can’t have a lemon party without old Dick.

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        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.

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      And maybe some blue waffles, too?

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    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.

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    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.”

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    “Yes, mom, it’s just a gender reveal party, nothing to worry about.”

    I will remember this for my next sex gender reveal party 😏

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    Maybe it’s a gender reveal party that will turn into a geriatric sex party. And she’s just not telling you that part yet.