Blog Post
5 years ago
hi, sims team.
i'd just like to know why the erratic trait still has a straitjacket icon. it's extremely derogatory towards mental health, especially considering that the game has no actual mental health representation. so the use of a literal symbol of institutionalization implies that sims with unpredictable emotions are crazy or need to be confined by straitjackets, and it doesn't sit right with me. it makes one of the few traits we do have in the base game unusable for me, since i don't really want to feel like a game i'm meant to enjoy is mocking mental illness, especially since the sims claims it cares about inclusivity and representation. it's in pretty poor taste.
thanks for your time.
i'd just like to know why the erratic trait still has a straitjacket icon. it's extremely derogatory towards mental health, especially considering that the game has no actual mental health representation. so the use of a literal symbol of institutionalization implies that sims with unpredictable emotions are crazy or need to be confined by straitjackets, and it doesn't sit right with me. it makes one of the few traits we do have in the base game unusable for me, since i don't really want to feel like a game i'm meant to enjoy is mocking mental illness, especially since the sims claims it cares about inclusivity and representation. it's in pretty poor taste.
thanks for your time.