After reading this article and the forum thread, I need a drink.

I personally find that people not following the rules of driving is a bigger concern than the people speeding. If people were able to actually follow the rules, instead of going 5 under in the left lane while 7+ train behind them bumper to bumper because car #1 don’t want to break the speed limit, despite being in the…

I think the struggle here is the gap between what is perceived as appropriate. I tend to agree though. I don’t feel as though I drive recklessly/ unsafe, and feel many would fail at arguing that I do, but I do frequently break the speed limit.

Would excessive speeding like this be reduced if all speed limits were based on some sort of scientifically-based actual safe traveling speed, rather than having areas of arbitrary reduced limits, seemingly for no reason other than revenue generation?

Blowing up shit should probably be avoided at any large gathering, but I think Gender Reveal parties trigger eye rolls also because their relative newness and feeling that they’re yet another ploy from Big Holiday to get people to spend money. Weddings already have engagement parties, bachelor parties, bridal showers,…

Yeah; the real problem is going from “cute idea!” to “whoops, burned down half the damn state.” 

I’ve never understood this position. So the gender is not a surprise if you find out a different day then the day it’s born?

Ha, a boomer joke! Clever! Yeah, because boomers are the ones who are plastering their lives all over social media for attention. I guess that also why they created the term “influencer” too.  You sure got me!

What? This confuses the fuck out of me....

Welcome to the Cancel Culture, I don’t like this, so no one else should do it then. 

I couldn’t care less if someone wants to reveal the gender of their child at a party. More power to em. Maybe just be safe and don’t burn shit down? I’m pretty sure these “incidents” are the exception, and a whole article didn’t need to be written blaming every gender reveal party for a few idiots who like to play…

Eh, I think this is a dumb thing to add to the list of things to cancel. The particular party in question was absolutely terrible and needed to be toned down a lot, but what about the countless parties that go off without a hitch? What about the families that are having trouble conceiving, and when they finally do,…

Or at least it is time to avoid explosive and incindiary devices during your “party”. How about a nice sign saying “it’s a boy” or “it’s a girl” or “it’s an indeterminate blob?”

These parties celebrate a baby’s gender as their primary identifying characteristic—after all, we know very little else about them at that point.

I am not acting like that, thanks.  I think the article did a poor job defending its premise, that’s all.  I couldn’t give two shits whether gender reveal parties exist or don’t.

Gonna go ahead and save this one for the next time someone asks me to demonstrate post-Gawker’s looney ideological crusading.

It’s officially time to retire the “pyrotechnics at gender reveal parties”. Fixed the headline for you.  

And yet none of those examples have ever had this issue. If an event that was just invented a decade ago has already reached a point that similar events, despite being DECADES older, haven’t, then perhaps it’s time to let it go. Don’t act like this is some deep seeded cultural tradition worth fighting for. This is a…

Yeah, there’s nothing differentiating this from birthdays or weddings (which keep causing fires with those candle balloons) except that a Lifehacker writer has it out for them for a completely unrelated personal reason. In terms of total fire damage, Chrismas and its decor probably comes in first.

Isn’t the problem people blowing up shit and not the gender reveal? You didn’t do much at all to convince me that the parties (as in the original) are a problem, just the escalation — all of which could be a baby shower or announcement and have nothing to do with gender revelation.