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Have you heard of gender reveal parties? Are trendy. And as the name suggests, it is a party that involves revealing the gender of an unborn baby. The concept took off around 2008. And today, gender reveal parties have become commonplace.
But there’s something really concerning about how these gender reveal parties are shaping up.
A Syrian couple recently spent up to $ 100,000 on their baby’s gender reveal party. What did they do with that amount of money?
Project the gender of the child at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai!
The couple is a social media influencer with more than 7 million followers on YouTube and more than 2 million followers on Instagram.
And they saw nothing wrong with wasting so much money on a grand celebration.
Here’s an alternative point of view.
Imagine the kind of use this money could have been put to in the couple’s home country of Syria.
Remember, Syria is a country ravaged by war.
By one estimate, 9.3 million Syrians fall asleep hungry.
Another 2 million are at risk of a similar fate.
There is nothing wrong with sharing the joy for your unborn child.
But what we are talking about here are limits.
Several netizens have pointed out the sheer loss of money. One Twitter user called it disgusting and embarrassing. Someone else said the celebrations were over the top.
Another Twitter user from Syria dropped a political bomb. He said the couple belongs to a political family.
The man’s father is the head of the US-backed Syrian opposition. We have not been able to independently verify this claim. But if it is true, then some serious questions must be posed to political elites in Syria and the United States.
Speaking of America, you must have heard of the California wildfires. The same one that has gutted 2.2. million acres of land.
Did you know that a gender reveal party is responsible for it? That’s where the fire started.
There is nothing wrong with celebrating the gender of a fetus. Especially if you can afford it financially and socially.
In India, for example, it is not even an option, as the child’s gender is not revealed for fear of infanticide.
But if you are in a country where there are no social taboos and fears, you have the right to celebrate.
The only question is, how far should you take things?
It is said that this woman came up with the idea of gender reveal parties.
In his post on Facebook, he states that he has mixed feelings about his contribution to this culture.
Look at a couple of lines from his post.
‘Who cares what gender the baby is? I did it at the time because we weren’t living in 2019 and we didn’t know what we know now … PLOT TWIST, the world’s first gender reveal party is a girl wearing suits! ‘
I hope this makes you think
