Customizable Pronouns First Look

I want the pronoun that most identifies with my sims, and that word would be "deranged". It doesn't matter if they're male or female, they're all crazy...

"kaiwrysims;c-18039215" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-18039194" wrote:

"logion;c-18039188" wrote:

"StrawberryYogurt;c-18039179" wrote:
If they do announce Sims 5 I imagine this will be a feature as well. I just hope they allow traditional simmers to play the way they want to as well. I see lots of games now deleting sex/gender altogether, just assigning body types and pronouns. Thats not how I see myself, the world and thats not how I play. So i hope they can still respect traditional players perspective and keep things optional like they do at times.

I think that's why they showed their pronouns during that segment on the livestream. To be clear that they are not removing him/her.

That is questionable. They said they are not removing him/her from the pronouns list, but they also said that they are re-wording the text messages so that they can fit with the custom pronouns also. This means that they are actually removing a lot of traditional pronouns because most text won't work with custom pronouns, and this will be very visible in languages that have male and female forms for nouns, adjectives, etc. Even in English, you have words like actor and actress, host and hostess, waiter and waitress, etc. to distinguish gender, they will need to scrap such words if they want to make the pop-up messages work with custom pronouns.

I find that being a good thing I have a hatred with gendered careers. Especially fireman, police man, etc. They have gender neutral options thankfully but there's still people who will use the male version when talking about anyone. And like idk it always bothered me. So im glad in the sims when we get something that's typically called "snowman" is called snow pal instead.

Women have fought long and hard for centuries to be acknowledged, to be on equal footing with the men, to be able to study and work professionally. To deny them the right to use those gendered career titles seems like betrayal especially when it's only been about 150 years they have been able to use them. Anyway, gender neutral options might be available in English, but not other languages.

"InuMiroLover;c-18039231" wrote:
I like it. Its not a feature Ive been personally begging for and I probably wont use it much, but its a good addition for those that have been clamoring for it. It's going to be interesting to see it further developed.

Same here. I wasn't begging at the front lines for it, but I'm exited and it will be nice to have.

"Elliandre;c-18039238" wrote:
This could potentially be very fun for my noble Sims. I would like them addressed royally as Thy and Thine.

'thee/thou/thy' (and thus 'thy' and 'thine') are historically singular, so nobles were addressed by the plural 'you' before it became the default. (In the same way, the French royals were addressed as 'vous', not 'tu', to show respect). Nobles wouldn't necessarily appreciate the informality!

"Benjamilian;c-18039250" wrote:

"Elliandre;c-18039238" wrote:
This could potentially be very fun for my noble Sims. I would like them addressed royally as Thy and Thine.

'thee/thou/thy' (and thus 'thy' and 'thine') are historically singular, so nobles were addressed by the plural 'you' before it became the default. (In the same way, the French royals were addressed as 'vous', not 'tu', to show respect). Nobles wouldn't necessarily appreciate the informality!

Maybe they could address them as Your Highness/His Highness/Their Highness. Hope they allow for it.

"crocobaura;c-18039254" wrote:

"Benjamilian;c-18039250" wrote:

"Elliandre;c-18039238" wrote:
This could potentially be very fun for my noble Sims. I would like them addressed royally as Thy and Thine.

'thee/thou/thy' (and thus 'thy' and 'thine') are historically singular, so nobles were addressed by the plural 'you' before it became the default. (In the same way, the French royals were addressed as 'vous', not 'tu', to show respect). Nobles wouldn't necessarily appreciate the informality!

Maybe they could address them as Your Highness/His Highness/Their Highness. Hope they allow for it.

That would be pretty cool! I know some people like to have historical saves. I do wish theyd add Sims Medieval type expansion, I see many mods even for Sims 2 for historical playing

"Benjamilian;c-18039250" wrote:

"Elliandre;c-18039238" wrote:
This could potentially be very fun for my noble Sims. I would like them addressed royally as Thy and Thine.

'thee/thou/thy' (and thus 'thy' and 'thine') are historically singular, so nobles were addressed by the plural 'you' before it became the default. (In the same way, the French royals were addressed as 'vous', not 'tu', to show respect). Nobles wouldn't necessarily appreciate the informality!

That's very interesting. :smile:

For the life of me, I can't see what harm to the game this update does. It's more options. I love options, I do. Keep 'em coming I say.

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18039204" wrote:

"Babykittyjade;c-18039177" wrote:
To be honest I'm a bit annoyed that we now have to look at pronouns perminately next to the name it seems. As I don't like how everyone displays it everywhere all over themselves these days. Personally I'm tired of seeing it and remember when people were just people regardless of how they identified.

What's wrong with that? I always wear this T-shirt out in public:

Spoiler

I painted He-Man's yellow hair black like my own. Since He-Man and myself look very similar it only takes folks a split second to make the connection and realize by which pronouns I go. Easy peezy. Some even call me Master, which is a bonus.

https://i.ibb.co/RYsv3mZ/heman.jpg

??????? I-

Call me old fashioned, but I am not exactly thrilled by the pronoun thing.
I have no issue with people wanting to use it, but it wasn't really something I want.
We can already make same-gendered couples, and have them give birth if we want. We can also make drag queens and drag kings, so I really don't understand the pronoun thing.
I don't think a drag king or drag queen should be called they/them, I think they should be acknowledged that they are who they are without all the pronouns.