When gender reveal parties go awry

I WISH I were given 10 bucks every time someone asked me: "Are you going to have a gender reveal party?"

Of course, it's asked with the sweetest of intentions, and it's heartwarming to know that family and friends - and even some strangers - are so excited about our little one.

But can we also admit that this fixation with a baby's sex is a tad strange? Should people really be so invested in a fetus' underdeveloped genital anatomy?

For the record, neither my husband nor I want to know our baby's gender before it is born. Funnily enough, this seems to drive some people crazy. Someone even suggested -…