In 2008, while pregnant with her first child, Jenna Karvunidis organized a party to find out if she was expecting a boy or a girl. She posted the event on her blog and the post went viral.
Shortly afterwards, baby sex revelations became widespread. Increasingly, they are becoming more massive, more organized, more creative, sometimes even more dangerous. Recall that 47,000 acres of land in Arizona were engulfed in flames as a result of a holiday around there, while the next time the pregnant woman's mother died as a result of explosives planned to be thrown at the holiday.
Karvunidis, now, considers the holidays problematic. "Who cares what gender the baby will be?" she wrote in a Facebook post in 2019. For The Guardian, she showed:
"I was not looking to find out what I was expecting. I just wanted a way to gather people. I have been enjoying the holidays. A year after the holiday, I saw people who started organizing such parties. It was weird. I thought someone else had done it before me. When I saw the fire in the forest I cried because I felt guilty. I think the holidays would have been organized, anyway. I just shaped it.
Now I think it?s not a good idea. I think that through them we emphasize an aspect of a person. I had two other children after the first child and I didn't organize a similar party. "
She added that she wants her children to grow up in a world where it doesn't matter "what the baby has between her legs". "There is a restriction and exploitation when it comes to gender. It can't be the determining sex of what you're going to do in life. "
