Hey let’s make some smoke!
People can be so stupid. Voluntarily stupid, stupid because not paying attention and not giving a shit, as opposed to unable to help it.
Like setting off a pyrotechnic device in Southern California while fires rage all over the state and the Santa Ana blows.
A smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used during a gender reveal party sparked the El Dorado Fire burning near Yucaipa, which has charred more than 7,000 acres, officials said Sunday.
And doing it at a “gender reveal party” for fucks sake.
According to the Cal Fire San Bernardino Unit, the El Dorado Fire was caused by “a smoke generating pyrotechnic device” used during the party in El Dorado Ranch Park. The fire spread from the park to Yucaipa Ridge, which separates Mountain Home Village and Forest Falls from Yucaipa.
“Cal Fire reminds the public that with the dry conditions and critical fire weather, it doesn’t take much to start a wildfire”, the agency said in a press release. “Those responsible for starting fires due to negligence or illegal activity can be held financially and criminally responsible.”
People shouldn’t need reminding.
A lot of people had to be evacuated.
More than 600 personnel were battling flames, along with 60 engines, three fixed-wing aircraft and six helicopters, according to the San Bernardino National Forest.
That’s a lot of expensive flame-battling for the sake of creating smoke during wildfire season. Jesus, people.
I hope the kid decides to be enby at age 5 and never deviates from that decision.
I loathe gender reveal parties, anyway, and this makes it even worse. Stupid on so many levels.
Shouldn’t they be called gender assignment parties nowadays?
Bruce, I think that “gender reveal parties are stupid” is the common ground that can unite us all. (At least parties held for infants.)
I’m currently listening to fireworks going off for what, labor day? A lot of people don’t need much of an excuse to indulge their pyromaniacal tendencies. It’s bullshit if you ask me, I’d prefer if my dog didn’t have to hide in the bathtub during every crummy Hallmark holiday. Independence day and New Years is enough for me, too much in fact. Buncha yahoos… :P
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Yes, the revulsion for “gender” (sex) reveal parties crosses many camps — did a swing by High Priest of Trans Cult PZ Myer site today and he is also upset about this trend. Probably the shared revulsion is more about the use of fire-setting pyrotechnics but there it is.
I hope there are prison sentences for such things in USA.
Holms, there is precedent. This happened before, a couple of years ago in Arizona, also during a dry period (which is most of the time in Arizona). They did charge and arrest the guy; I lost track of the case, so I don’t know what happened to him. If I remember correctly, I think he was a ranger or something, so really should have known better.
HOW CAN ANYONE KNOW AN UNBORN CHILD’S MAGICAL INTERNAL GENDER ESSENCE!?
Sorry. I just… argh. It’s just the absolute worst kind of fake wokery (fokerey?) – using the hip new word “gender” instead of “sex”, while absolutely, obviously, clearly not believing any of the stuff attached to the word. All they’re doing is making the world worse.
I have long suspected that the ability to know the sex of an infant months before they’re born helped contribute to the increased division of children into Pretty Princess and Brave He-man categories. There’s something about buying gender neutral clothes, furniture, toys, and sundries which helps parents focus on the child as a child, I think. I found out the sex after labor. My babies, boy and girl, worse green onesies and yellow overalls. A generation later, you didn’t have to ask the sex of the child. Everything they wore seemed to scream stereotypical “boy” or “girl.”
Sastra, that was my experience, too. The doctor offered an ultrasound to see the sex of the baby, but I chose not to. It didn’t matter to me, but a lot of people kept asking “How will you know what stuff to buy, how to decorate the room?” No problem, I replied. The room is done in Winnie-the-Pooh; I think that is suitable to age, and non-gendered, which is the way I wanted it. This obsessive gendering is a nightmare, and besides, how can you do an office pool betting on date and sex if you already know the sex?
Maybe “sex reveal parties” could replace “gender reveal parties”. Everything should be gender neutral, no gendered words imprinted on any clothing, and absolutely no flames allowed.
Some years ago I read an article about someone who wanted to produce a toy for boys and girls, so he went to a toy company to pitch the idea. They didn’t know what to do with it if it weren’t aimed at one sex or the other; the company was split into two separate divisions, boys’ toys and girls’ toys, and had no mechanism for developing a gender neutral toy.
Yikes, I wouldn’t want to get an invite to a “sex reveal party”. I couldn’t even guess what the dress code for one of those would be.