As one of the Americans, home of useless made up measurements, I’ve made an effort to get used to using Celsius at least, mostly just by using weather reports that use it. And while it hasn’t provided much utility living here other than understanding comments made by foreigners occasionally, I do like the system so much better.

This next year I’ll start trying to familiarize myself with length/distance.

I love how metric works so much better. It definitely hits a happy spot in my brain for organization.

Due to living here I can’t just forget the murican system, but it would be nice not to try to need a conversion lookups every time I hear a story about something that happens somewhere else.

I mean, based on my observations, I think the only people organizing these at all are straight white cisheteronormative types (and further, almost always women).

Maybe that’s just how I’ve seen it, but I’ve never witnessed them, I usually only hear about them at all if a video pops up of a compilation of bad reactions or mistakes (as in wrong color reveal, accidental early reveal) pops up. Maybe that’s just me but I haven’t personally seen much of any other group doing them in the first place. Occasionally there are others, but almost always done by them.

I’ve said this for years.

“Sex Reveal” has an entirely different connotation.

But just let kids tell you.

Give em a few years on their own to be exposed to how gender is expressed, then let them decide who they are.