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7 years ago
@Erpe - Ever since SGDrake said that teenage girls are the target audience of TS4, almost every post I've seen from you has used this as a springboard for arguments about the shallowness or general inferiority of the game experience compared to earlier Sims games. It's frankly insulting as someone who was once a female teenage Simmer, who knew plenty of other female teenage Simmers, and knows loads of female gamers who defy the stereotypes you hammer out time and time again. I know no female gamers who match the stereotypes you routinely call upon to elaborate on what you think it means that young girls are the target audience of TS4. And I know more female gamers than male gamers. Discourse like yours is built on and perpetuates a lot of negative stereotypes about young women. Not all teenage girls are the same. They're not all social butterflies who would rather text about their boyfriends than tell complex stories.
It's not up to you to make a judgement call about how anyone else chooses to manage their time. Some Simmers are shy, some are ill, some have the Sims as their main hobby, some play the Sims instead of watching videos or scrolling through social media - similarly, some go on the forum during a work break, some do it when they're ill, some do it as a break from writing essays (my most active period on the forum, haha), some do it if they have recently moved away and no longer live near their previous social group. The point is, the list goes on and on, and you're not basing your assumptions in this matter on anything other than your own experience, which is valid but obviously different than many other people's experiences.
It's not up to you to make a judgement call about how anyone else chooses to manage their time. Some Simmers are shy, some are ill, some have the Sims as their main hobby, some play the Sims instead of watching videos or scrolling through social media - similarly, some go on the forum during a work break, some do it when they're ill, some do it as a break from writing essays (my most active period on the forum, haha), some do it if they have recently moved away and no longer live near their previous social group. The point is, the list goes on and on, and you're not basing your assumptions in this matter on anything other than your own experience, which is valid but obviously different than many other people's experiences.
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