‘Stop Having These Stupid Parties’ Says Blogger Who Popularized Gender Reveals After Latest Massive Wildfire

• Jenna Myers Karvunidis, who invented gender reveal parties, tells people to stop after the latest wildfire in San Bernardino County.
• These parties have evolved from the traditional cake slicing to using extreme tricks to create more drama for the reveal.
• Wildfires, millions worth of damages, and at least one death occurred as a result. Now Karvunidis is condemning these excessive celebrations.

In 2008, Jenna Myers Karvunidis celebrated a gender reveal party with family and friends.

By slicing a cake which showed a pink frosting inside, they all found out that she and her husband were having a baby girl.

Karvunidis wrote about the occasion on her blog, High Gloss and Sauce, and it captured a lot of people’s attention.

However, gender reveal parties have since become more ostentatious and more dangerous through the years.

In Iowa, a grandmother died when a family unintentionally built a pipe bomb for the party. Instead of the blue or pink powder, the entire device exploded when the device went off. A piece of shrapnel hit and killed the grandmom, who was standing 45 feet away, according to CNN.

On April 23, 2017, a wildfire which started near Green Valley, Arizona and eventually spread to the Coronado State Forest also occurred due to a gender reveal party.

Guests shot at a Tannerite-packed, makeshift target with the words ‘Boy’ and ‘Girl’ written on it. When the target exploded, a blue cloud bursted and ignited the surrounding bush. Consequently, the flames spread, causing the Sawmill Fire.

Overall, a total of 47, 000 acres burned because of the wildfire as it lasted about a week. The expectant father was ordered to pay $8,188,069 for the damages… and yes, it was a boy.

Similarly, a Tannerite and a weapon used in a gender reveal party caused a 10-acre bush fire also in April.

Just this Saturday morning, another wildfire broke out at the El Dorado Ranch Park in Yucaipa.

Authorities say that a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used at the reveal party caused the fire, which burned over 8,600 acres, CNN reported.

Because of these tragic incidents, Karvunidis is now asking the people to stop.

On her Facebook, she wrote:

Stop having these stupid parties. For the love of God, stop burning things down to tell everyone about your kid’s penis. No one cares but you.

It was 116 degrees in Pasadena yesterday and this tool thought it would be smart to light a fire about his kid’s d—. Toxic masculinity is men thinking they need to explode something because simply enjoying a baby party is for sissies.

Excuse me for having a cake for my family in 2008. Just because I’m the gEnDeR rEvEaL iNVeNtoR doesn’t mean I think people should burn down their communities.

Stop.