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The Stunningly-Performative Nature Of The New Mom

The logical fallacy of the gender reveal party.

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Ted Bauer
Oct 19, 2024
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Thankfully, as a dude, I haven’t been invited to many gender reveal parties. I think my total attendance-wise is 2, maybe 3. I also benefited from a quirk of how my adulthood has unfolded: my ex-wife’s friends only started having babies as I was exiting that world, and when I got into a new relationship, I usually hadn’t been on the scene long enough to…

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