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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.
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.
In the spirit of cultural exchange, sorry.
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:
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.
(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.
You're not able to gender someone else though, if someone says they're female, you can't go 'No, you're male'