Woman who popularized the gender reveal party says enough already after latest wildfire

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/us/gender-reveal-parties-overview-trnd/index.html

Woman who popularized the gender reveal party says enough already after latest wildfire
By Leah Asmelash, CNN
Updated 11:33 PM ET, Mon September 7, 2020

(CNN) 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.

This isn't the first time a gender reveal party has led to catastrophe, and yet the celebrations have only grown in popularity.

The current wildfire in California is massive, but it's just small potatoes compared to a 2017 reveal in Arizona that led to a wildfire spanning 47,000 acres. It all happened when members at the party shot a makeshift target scrawled with the words "Boy" and "Girl."

Last October, in Iowa, an idea for a fun gender reveal party went south when the family unintentionally built a pipe bomb. When the device went off, it wasn't just blue or pink gun powder that exploded, but the entire pipe did as well, sending shrapnel flying.

A piece of metal hit a grandmother, who was standing about 45 feet away, and killed her.

[CrispyQ]

1. It's stories like this that I think of when people say our big brain will save us.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Gender reveal parties are a stupid, self-centered way to get attention

and baby gifts. FFS, people, nobody cares about the gender of your child but you. If you want to make a big deal of it anyhow, at least avoid using things that explode or start fires.

[NCDem47]

3. Just cut into a GD cake with blue or pink frosting

and stop with the fireworks!

[Nictuku]

4. Exactly!

There is nothing wrong with Gender Reveal parties. Ridiculous gun and pyro nuts ruin everything!

[ProfessorGAC]

5. A Pipe Bomb?

For gender reveal? Packing a pipe full of explosives, for this? Monumentally stupid, even if it hadn't killed a lady.
Too many people think they understand these dangerous thing because they set off an M-80 once.
Idiots.

[Nevilledog]

6. "Somewhere in California right now."

Link to tweet

Dumbasses

[misanthrope]

7. Symptomatic of the runaway narcissism in our society

Social media has only amplified it.

[hunter]

8. Gender is best revealed by the person who is celebrating their gender.

It's not something that's revealed by an ultrasound or birth.

[jalan48]

9. I'm with Stupid would be an appropriate t-shirt.

[Towlie]

10. I'd never heard of these parties before. At first I guessed that it had something to do with LGBTQ.

True story.