Look out folks. Here’s another liberal telling us what we can and cannot do. Great.
Diane Stopyra recently wrote an article for Marie Claire condemning gender reveal parties, titled, Dear Parents-to-Be: Stop Celebrating Your Baby’s Gender. Cutting into a pink or blue cake seems innocent enough — but honestly, it’s not.
But honestly, it is.
Throughout the article, she makes a number of charges against the parties in question. In her eyes, they are anti-transgender, anti-intersex, anti-feminist and anti-poor. Wow.
Stopyra begins the article by exposing her disdain for the games played at baby showers, not because of how kitschy they are, but because of how they promote the “baby industrial complex.” Uh. What?
What’s even more amazing is her apparent disrespect of expectant mothers, calling them the “knocked-up set.”
Within the article, Stopyra quoted professor Carly Gieseler on her work, Gender-Reveal Parties: Performing Community Identity in Pink and Blue. The article says, “We’re affixing a label to a child who hasn’t even had a chance to enter the world and assume that identity.”
Stopyra also interviewed a bakery manager from Illinois and said, “Having to supervise the making of gender-reveal cakes as her first job out of college was, she says, a ‘weird’ experience, and though she enjoyed the work otherwise, she did feel a certain measure of relief when she left that heteronormative environment.”
The author even went so far as to say the participation in such a celebration “is a little narcissistic.”
She ends the article by declaring, “We’d be better off showing the little girls in attendance that changing the world is every bit as much a female prerogative as bedazzling onesies. And that step one is celebrating who — not what — a child will be.”
Stopyra’s main argument rests on the idea that gender-reveal parties are harmful to both transgender and intersex children. Intersex children are the tiny percentage born with birth defects that make their sex harder to distinguish.
In most cases, progressives apparently want you to embrace the qualities you’re born with (race, culture, body shape, sexual orientation etc.) For some reason though, that’s not the case for gender. It’s clear that liberals are okay promoting this empowering ideal until it doesn’t fit their narrative.
Haley is a regular contributor to The Daily Wire and founding chairwoman of Concordia University Irvine’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter. Follow her on Twitter at @Haley_Victory.