'Forgive me for starting the gender reveal trend'

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'When I quietly celebrated the news from my 20-week pregnancy scan that I was carrying a baby girl, I never dreamt it would spark a global trend... A decade or so later, what was a low-key, personal affair in my home has become something quite absurd.'

Today, the most overblown of these parties – which my own inadvertently spawned –involve actual explosives and guns, with either pink or blue smoke fired out. Gender reveal smoke bombs can be purchased, not to mention the burgeoning industry of "gender reveal" tableware, balloons, confetti cannons, banners, cakes, flower walls and more, all coloured either pink or blue.Not all of the wackier stunts have gone smoothly.

Even more troubling is the regressive mindset behind the parties. Pink for a girl and blue for a boy? Why is this still happening in 2019. The blue and pink of these ridiculous gender reveal parties - accompanied by images of either "boyish" things like tractors, or "girlie" things like ballet shoes - helps enshrine old-fashioned gender clichés and establish expectations of what a child will be like, even before they have been born.

 

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