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    Gender reveal parties are harmful in so many ways – why do we treat them as quirky? | Arwa Mahdawi

    They’re deeply weird, they reinforce rigid gender binaries – and this week one set off a fire that burned more than 13,000 acres of land
    by Arwa Mahdawi Sep 12, 2020 3 minutes
    A firefighter battles the El Dorado fire, which was started by a device at a gender reveal party. Photograph: Will Lester/AP

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    Gender reveal parties are a form of domestic terrorism

    One dead grandmother-to-be. A downed plane. An incinerated car. Several terrifying explosions. An altercation at Applebee’s. A massive wildfire that burned 47,000 acres of Arizona forest and resulted in an estimated $8m worth of damage.

    All that’s just a small snapshot of the manslaughter and mayhem unleashed by gender reveal parties over the last couple of years. And that’s before you factor in the latest nightmare ignited by the terrible trend:” set off at a gender reveal party, has burned more than of forest so far and prompted the evacuation of 3,000 residents.

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