re: Baby Gender Reveal Parties

I didn't have one cause since I had a small destination wedding and I felt like having a bridal shower on top of asking people to spend money to travel to my wedding was just inappropriate and tacky.

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I didn't go to the baby shower, well...I made "an appearance" to say thank you

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To my knowledge, baby showers have never really been for guys to attend.

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but why would I miss the reveal party?

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To sound cool on the internet of course.

Every gender reveal I've been to had great food, booze, and good people. Why would anyone not participate in that?

I forgot, most baby showers are women only. Yeah you show up to help load gifts.

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but why would I miss the reveal party? I would hope any father would want to be one of the first to know his child's sex

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Because the OT thinks you're beta for caring about the sex of your child, and anyone else that cares is trashy and beta as well.

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I'm hoping that this assumption is right. I don't believe some husband would be out playing golf if his wife's friends threw them a baby shower, or if she was planning a gender reveal party. I believe that he would object for sure, but then when the chips fall, he'd be there like the guy in the pics a few pages back.

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Wife wanted to do a gender reveal party, I shut that shite down. We told the parents in person/called a few relatives and she posted something pinteresty on facebook.

Not going to a baby shower either, Wife already has at least 4 being planned possibly a few more from my family in Louisiana and I won't attend a single one.

Plan to be on the motorcycle for the Tennessee ones and fishing with my grandpa for any Louisiana ones.

Not all of us have no backbone...

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The rest of the world doesn't.

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Is anyone forcing you to go? I legitimately cared about the genders of all of my friend's babies. These people walked in my wedding and we've been friends for more than a decade. People other than the parents care.

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Having an attention whore party is overkill.

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I think it's more attention whorey for the gender party bashing thread to get constantly made on here so the same people can make the same posts stupids posts trying to act cool, but you don't see me starting a thread about it.

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Wife wanted to do a gender reveal party, I shut that shite down.

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You're so cool and manly. That's what you want to hear right?

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Not going to a baby shower either, Wife already has at least 4 being planned possibly a few more from my family in Louisiana and I won't attend a single one.

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And you shouldn't. Those aren't for you.

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Not all of us have no backbone...

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Not all of us are too cool to party with family and friends.

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Everyone. Come see what type of baby I'm having. You must all give up your Saturday. We will provide bad finger food and cheap beer. Watch us release some balloons. And do boring hen pecked activities.

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have you ever even been to one?

Could I have just have a Pilonidal Cyst instead?

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You're missing the point. We found out at the ultrasound together. We told our parents and siblings together. We told our friends together.

I was not interested in having a "Hey look at me" party.

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Then why tell any of those people the gender beforehand? Can't they just find out when the baby is born? Why are you attention whoring so much?

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Everyone. Come see what type of baby I'm having. You must all give up your Saturday. We will provide bad finger food and cheap beer. Watch us release some balloons. And do boring hen pecked activities.

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I love parties. Especially ones I'm not throwing because I'm friends with people who a) don't attention whore, b) don't expect me to give up an entire day, c) are foodies and beer snobs who don't expect me to do anything other than hang out and have a good time. Maybe if you had better friends you wouldn't mind going to activities where you shared in the joyous moments in their lives.