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The Velveteen Ocelot

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7. Gender reveal parties are a silly, self-centered way

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 28, 2019, 01:53 PM

Oct 2019

to call even more attention to the wonderfulness of somebody's reproductive activities. I'm surprised they don't have conception parties (or maybe somebody's done that, too). But they're harmless enough until someone feels the need to broadcast their reproductive wonderfulness on social media, which tempts people to scale the heights of stupid until something tragic happens.

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Iowa woman killed at gender reveal party [View all] 47of74 Oct 2019 OP

Almost the perfect Darwin Award lapfog_1 Oct 2019 #1

Not really--the dead woman was too old to be having more children. nt tblue37 Oct 2019 #4

yes. if the pipe bomb had killed the prospective parents... lapfog_1 Oct 2019 #5

She was 56, and probably the grandmother-to-be. nt tblue37 Oct 2019 #6

What a sad, stupid way to go. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #2

I posted that same sentiment on FB and got lambasted for it. They're selfish and MEMEME ridiculous CurtEastPoint Oct 2019 #3

Gender reveal parties are a silly, self-centered way The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #7

I said the baby, if he/she/it knew this had happened, they'd be appalled. CurtEastPoint Oct 2019 #8