Gender Reveal Creator Tries To Take It All Back: It's Too Late For That
The woman best known for popularizing gender reveal parties has a message for the world: Please stop.
This week, as more than 7,000 acres in California were burned after a gender reveal led to a massive wildfire in San Bernardino County, blogger Jenna Karvunidis -- who is largely credited for creating the gender reveal party -- took to Facebook to condemn the over-the-top events.
"Stop having these stupid parties. For the love of God, stop burning things down to tell everyone about your kid's penis. No one cares but you," she wrote.
If the damage done by huge wildfires isn't enough, such gender reveal parties have also led to property damage (like the plane crash last year in Texas, or the car that burst into flames in Australia).
And, ironically, this celebration of life has also led to at least one death.
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Oh no no no no no no. “Apology” not accepted. This is nice and all, but it’s too late. It’s objectively too late. It’s good to know you feel remorse but the damage has been done. Maybe if this apology came, 2, 3 years ago, back when gender reveals were just mostly stupid, it would be different. Maybe, if that was the case, we’d give you a chance to atone for your sins. But not now. This is your party. You invited everyone. It’s a terrible party. You can’t leave early.
You could argue that it was too late when a gender reveal killed someone’s grandma with a pipe bomb, and it’s definitely too late now that one almost burnt down the entire state of California. How much worse could it get? We’re at rockbottom! I guess a gender reveal could technically end the world, but that might already be happening. So no, you can’t suddenly express remorse and take the moral high ground once the worst thing happens. It doesn’t work like that.
Intentionally or not, you put this darkness out into the world and you can’t take it back. Monkey’s out of the bag! You made piñatas cool for adults and now you’ve got to live with it, forever.
