Since when did men get invites to baby showers?

[vash]

WTF? i was hoping a friend could go turkey hunting with me, to split fuel cost. NOPE! he promised his GF to attend some baby shower with her. no getting out of it for him..

damn..when did this happen?

he said he can go tomorrow, but forget it..i wont be able to not make fun of him..

[Oh Haha]

Since we became all freakin' sensitive and what not. pfft

[Zeke]

I would only go to a baby shower if it really was in the shower.

[porsche4life]

Cuz he wants to sleep with the GF..... Earn brownie points by going to shower= nookie...

[dennis in se pa]

I never go to them. She knows better than to ask. Think of it this way - Would your father have gone? I don't think so.
"They" are turning the men into women. Turning heterosexuals into non-heterosexuals. The End is Near.

[sammyg2]

[sammyg2]

[aigel]

Very bad start into the relationship. He will be going to every infant and toddler b-day too. And there are many. He may as well give up hunting.

I never went to any of this stuff. But never did from the start. My wife would meet other husbands, coworkers etc. at the toddler b-day and they'd ask where I was. She'd tell them -

"Oh, he is in the mountains camping out, it would be really stupid if he'd work all week and then have to spend his weekend going to little kids's birthday parties".

She said you should have seen those guys' faces.

Seriously, you don't have to be connected at the hip just because you are a couple. You can't tell me that guy wouldn't rather go turkey hunting. He will soon hate that lady and split.

G

[tweezers74]

I don't get it either. It's the time we get to make fun of men and how incompetent they are when it comes to baby stuff.

[Jim Richards]

Werd. Men should stay in the den/garage/patio/local pub.

[flatbutt]

Immediate revocation of his man card and one testicle.

[Oh Haha]

vash--how hot is said gf? He IS a guy afterall and nookie is pretty darn important.

Once she eats the wedding cake, everything changes!

[mikeesik]

Pussification of husbands (absolutely). And I was bothered by the elementary school male students..it all follows.

I hope men stop marrying to become a boy again.....

[id10t]

I had the guys over for beer and some stuff on the grill while the ladies went ooh and ahhh. Only had a shower for our first, the other 2 we had a party a few weeks after birth.

[speeder]

I went to my first one a couple weeks ago, didn't really think anything of it until I got there and realized that I'd never been to one before. When I get an invite to something, the only thing I look at is who's inviting me, then I either show up or not.

NBD, they were just fishing for presents for the soon-to-be-spoiled kid. Place was chock-full of beaver and good food.

[944Larry]

I think that's the deal Speeder-more presents.

[craigster59]

Just go. At least you know the host puts out....

[aigel]

Originally Posted by id10t

I had the guys over for beer and some stuff on the grill while the ladies went ooh and ahhh. Only had a shower for our first, the other 2 we had a party a few weeks after birth.

Makes sense. Don't count your chickens until they are hatched. In my culture nobody would buy stuff ahead of time - bad luck. Also, on a very practical note, the gender may sometimes change from what's been determined by ultrasound. Then you get to return all that crap and repaint the room.

I did not want to know the gender of my kids before they were born. Kept me from having to buy a bunch of stuff and get a room ready. You really don't need much for a taking home a newborn that you can't get in a 1h trip to the baby store.

G

[legion]

I've been to one wedding shower and one baby shower.

Now, before you go on revoking my man card...

The wedding shower was my wife's when we were engaged. I hung out with the guys and made an appearance during the last 5 minutes to thank everyone.

The baby shower was my wife's when she was pregnant with our son. I went trap shooting with the guys and made an appearance during the last 5 minutes to thank everyone.

I have never been to anyone else's baby shower or wedding shower, excepting showing up to pick up/drop off my wife.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Yep.

The trend now is for these stupid "Jack and Jill" events, which basically mean you sit around as a guy drinking crappy beer or chardonay at a weepy, sappy chick event, making awkward conversation about sports teams with other equally-annoyed males off in some distant corner of the room for three hours while the girls cry and giggle and hug each other. I swear this whole concept was invented by the same a-hole at Hallmark who invented Valentine's Day - the whole thing is just to force men to spend more money and get them to do more things they don't naturally want to do.

Here's my idea for a "Jack and Jill" shower:

Girls go have their cry-in/emotion fest together, complete with their little gifts and artsy-craftsy things and shi-shi wine and rabbit food. Guys all meet up at a local strip bar, get piss drunk, hoot at some hooters for a few hours, eat heaping plates of nachos and then vomit in some back alley before being picked up by their GF/wife/whatever on the way home, climbing into the passenger's seat, passing out and then waking up with a hangover later forgetting the names and faces of anyone else there.

I think the idea would get a lot more traction if it were like that.