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<p>Who hasn&#39;t, after giving up a day of their weekend and dropping $100 on a gift, gotten fed up at someone else&#39;s life milestone event?</p><p>One man felt frustrated by a gender reveal, and decided to make that frustration incredibly clear to everyone in attendance. After he got a mixed reaction from the other guests, he&#39;s asked the internet to adjudicate: was he the a-hole in this situation, or were the people throwing the event in the wrong?</p><h2>The story starts with the man having to drive 45 minutes for the honor of attending a gender reveal:</h2><blockquote> <p>I (30 M) drive 45 minutes outside of the city to go to my workmates gender reveal party. In the first place, I find this to be an obnoxious new fad, but I try to be a good sport for the sake of my work relationship. I dress up. I bring a gift. I bring a bottle of wine for the party. I am trying.</p> </blockquote><h2>But the reveal didn&#39;t exactly go as he expected:</h2><blockquote> <p>After much buildup, the couple stand in front of this box-thing with the gender reveal hidden inside. They pull a string, the box falls apart, confetti, streamers etc. and there reads a message &quot;Unassigned!&quot;.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Yes, the couple threw a gender reveal to announce the fact that they don&#39;t believe in assigning babies a gender at birth. Of course, they made a speech.</h2><blockquote> <p>There are audible groans. A few woke claps. They launch into a polemic about gender and their decision not to assign their child a gender, and I begin loudly, playfully booing. No one joins in. A few people pull me aside later in the night to lecture me, others to thank me.</p> </blockquote><h2>After the mixed reaction, he&#39;s not sure if he did the right thing:</h2><blockquote> <p>Now, I don&#39;t begrudge them raising their child however they want, and I don&#39;t have anything against trans people. But I thought bringing us so far out of our way, under the already lame pretense of a gender reveal, and then using it as an opportunity to posture and preach was lame, insincere and a**hole-ish in the extreme.</p> </blockquote><h2>So is he the a-hole here? Let&#39;s see what the internet says.</h2><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/epxmch/aita_for_loudly_booing_at_a_friends_gender_reveal/femd1op/">ValeNova</a> says he was well within his rights to boo after being invited to such a pointless event:</p><blockquote> <p>What&#39;s the purpose of organising a gender reveal party when you don&#39;t want to assign a gender? You&#39;re right: you have put effort in this and it turns out that you&#39;re just there to be lectured.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/epxmch/aita_for_loudly_booing_at_a_friends_gender_reveal/feme4qk/">Gorgo_xx</a> found the preaching most egregious:</p><blockquote> <p>Don&rsquo;t invite people to a gift-grab party and then to preach at them.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s a terrible bait and switch, on the same level as inviting someone to a party so that you can pitch them some MLM shite.</p> <p>Poor form on them, booing card acceptable.</p> </blockquote><p>But <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/epxmch/aita_for_loudly_booing_at_a_friends_gender_reveal/femhfj8/">Elicander</a> votes that &quot;everyone sucks here&quot;:</p><blockquote> <p>The booing makes it ESH for me though. OP could&rsquo;ve left in protest, taken coworker aside to talk about how ridiculous it was, made comments to other people at the party (in moderation), but booing, really?</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/epxmch/aita_for_loudly_booing_at_a_friends_gender_reveal/femdeta/">Unrelentingalli</a> votes that the man is the a-hole, but it&#39;s okay:</p><blockquote> <p>YTA but i don&rsquo;t hold it against you. That party wasted everyone&rsquo;s time.</p> </blockquote><p>And <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/epxmch/aita_for_loudly_booing_at_a_friends_gender_reveal/femddlw/">Foothillsgirl</a> threw another vote in for &quot;everyone sucks&quot;:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>You were rude and defiantly crossed a line.</p> <p>They invited people over for a party (where they expect gifts) under false pretenses. This wasnt a celebration of a baby, it was a soapbox for attention seekers.</p> </blockquote><p>In the end, it&#39;s a pretty even split as to who&#39;s the biggest a-hole in this situation. One thing everyone can agree on, though, is that a gender non-reveal is just as annoying as a gender reveal.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Man asks if he was wrong for booing at 'woke' gender reveal party.

Who hasn&#39;t, after giving up a day of their weekend and dropping $100 on a gift, gotten fed up at someone else&#39;s life milestone event?One man felt frustrated by a gender reveal, and decided to make that frustration incredibly clear to everyone in attendance. After he got a mixed reaction from the other guests, he&#39;s asked the internet to adjudicate: was he the a-hole in this situation, or were the people throwing the event in the wrong?The story starts with the man having to drive 45 minutes for the honor of attending a gender reveal: I (30 M) drive 45 minutes outside of the city to go to my workmates gender reveal party. In the first place, I find this to be an obnoxious new fad, but I try to be a good sport for the sake of my work relationship. I dress up. I bring a gift. I bring a bottle of wine for the party. I am trying. But the reveal didn&#39;t exactly go as he expected: After much buildup, the couple stand in front of this box-thing with the gender reveal hidden inside. They pull a string, the box falls apart, confetti, streamers etc. and there reads a message &quot;Unassigned!&quot;. Yes, the couple threw a gender reveal to announce the fact that they don&#39;t believe in assigning babies a gender at birth. Of course, they made a speech. There are audible groans. A few woke claps. They launch into a polemic about gender and their decision not to assign their child a gender, and I begin loudly, playfully booing. No one joins in. A few people pull me aside later in the night to lecture me, others to thank me. After the mixed reaction, he&#39;s not sure if he did the right thing: Now, I don&#39;t begrudge them raising their child however they want, and I don&#39;t have anything against trans people. But I thought bringing us so far out of our way, under the already lame pretense of a gender reveal, and then using it as an opportunity to posture and preach was lame, insincere and a**hole-ish in the extreme. So is he the a-hole here? Let&#39;s see what the internet says.ValeNova says he was well within his rights to boo after being invited to such a pointless event: What&#39;s the purpose of organising a gender reveal party when you don&#39;t want to assign a gender? You&#39;re right: you have put effort in this and it turns out that you&#39;re just there to be lectured. Gorgo_xx found the preaching most egregious: Don&rsquo;t invite people to a gift-grab party and then to preach at them. It&rsquo;s a terrible bait and switch, on the same level as inviting someone to a party so that you can pitch them some MLM shite. Poor form on them, booing card acceptable. But Elicander votes that &quot;everyone sucks here&quot;: The booing makes it ESH for me though. OP could&rsquo;ve left in protest, taken coworker aside to talk about how ridiculous it was, made comments to other people at the party (in moderation), but booing, really? Unrelentingalli votes that the man is the a-hole, but it&#39;s okay: YTA but i don&rsquo;t hold it against you. That party wasted everyone&rsquo;s time. And Foothillsgirl threw another vote in for &quot;everyone sucks&quot;: You were rude and defiantly crossed a line. They invited people over for a party (where they expect gifts) under false pretenses. This wasnt a celebration of a baby, it was a soapbox for attention seekers. In the end, it&#39;s a pretty even split as to who&#39;s the biggest a-hole in this situation. One thing everyone can agree on, though, is that a gender non-reveal is just as annoying as a gender reveal.

Who hasn&#39;t, after giving up a day of their weekend and dropping $100 on a gift, gotten fed up at someone else&#39;s life milestone event?  One man felt frustrated by a gender reveal, and decided to make that frustration incredibly...