美国国家公共电台 NPR Woman Who Popularized Gender-Reveal Parties Says Her Views On Gender Have Changed

 

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:

It's the surprise party all over social media. It's been called the gender¹ reveal party.

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UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Screaming).

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: It's a girl.

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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Shouting) It's a boy.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: That was a couple finding a box of pink clothes, another of a man swinging a golf ball leaving a blue trail of powder. There are hundreds of these videos of expectant couples revealing the sex of their baby using the colors pink for girl and blue for a boy. For blogger Jenna Karvunidis, it was through a cake.

JENNA KARVUNIDIS: We had a knife, and we cut into it altogether. We all saw the pink icing at the same time and found out that we were having a girl.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: That was in 2008 before Pinterest or Instagram. So how did Karvunidis get the idea? For one, she loves cake. And...

KARVUNIDIS: I mean, gosh, I just like to throw parties. I just thought it would be really fun for everybody in the whole family to find out.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Karvunidis' cake idea was written up by a local Chicago magazine. But then...

KARVUNIDIS: I started noticing, myself, more and more of them about a year or two later. And then, of course, you know, I don't know, the last maybe five years, it's just gone totally crazy.

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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: Newly released video shows the moment a gender reveal party went terribly wrong. The blaze² quickly spread.

KARVUNIDIS: Now I'm seeing them, and they're burning down forests and exploding cars, bringing alligators³ into the mix. And it's just become a bit of a nightmare⁴.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: There was something else that made her rethink her party 11 years ago, and she recently wrote about it on Facebook.

KARVUNIDIS: Plot twist - the baby from the original gender reveal party is a girl who wears suits. She says, you know, she and her and all of that, but, you know, she really goes outside, I'd say, gender norms⁵.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: The post went viral. Karvunidis may have been one of the first people to publicly talk about her gender reveal party, but she says her views on sex and gender have changed, especially when talking to her daughter.

KARVUNIDIS: She's telling me, Mom, there are many genders⁶. Mom, there's many different sexualities and, you know, all different types, and I take her lead on that.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Karvunidis does have some regret.

KARVUNIDIS: I know it's been harmful to some individuals. It's 2019. We don't need to get our joy by giving others pain. I think there's a new way to have these parties.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: And she has another idea.

KARVUNIDIS: Celebrate the baby. There's no way to have a cake to cut into it to see if they're going to like chess. Let's just have a cake.

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GARCIA-NAVARRO: That was Jenna Karvunidis from Pasadena, Calif.

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1 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

2 blaze   

n.火焰，火堆，火光，火灾；vi.燃烧，着火

参考例句：

• In a blaze of anger he shouted at them.他怒火中烧，对着他们大吼起来。
• Dry wood makes a good blaze.干木燃起夺目的光焰。

3 alligators   

n.短吻鳄( alligator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Two alligators rest their snouts on the water's surface. 两只鳄鱼的大嘴栖息在水面上。 来自辞典例句
• In the movement of logs by water the lumber industry was greatly helped by alligators. 木材工业过去在水上运输木料时所十分倚重的就是鳄鱼。 来自辞典例句

4 nightmare   

n.恶梦，可怕的事物，无法摆脱的恐惧

参考例句：

• I was glad to awake from such a nightmare.我庆幸终于从噩梦中醒来了。
• I had a nightmare last nightand,lost sleep.昨夜我作了个恶梦，失眠了。

5 norms   

n. 规范 名词norm的复数形式

参考例句：

• deviation from the previously accepted norms 违背事先接受的准则
• Everyone should abide by our social norms. 我们每个人都应该遵守社会行为准则。

6 genders   

n.性某些语言的（阳性、阴性和中性，不同的性有不同的词尾等）( gender的名词复数 )；性别；某些语言的（名词、代词和形容词）性的区分

参考例句：

• There are three genders in German: masculine, feminine and neuter. 德语中有叁性：阳性、阴性和中性。 来自辞典例句
• Japan was fourth among the genders of foreign students. 日本在二十个留美学生输送地中列第四位。 来自互联网