"davina1221;c-18181991" wrote:
"wylmite1986;c-18164793" wrote:
Yes I think it’s another glitch cause it’s happening in my game as well. I’m hoping since she’s now married it won’t be as bad.
No it happens. Thing is, I didn't know that it is automatically set to both and made a whole family. My teen can't date because two girls he was after is either gay or both and my married wife sim is want relations with a female coworker when I want a family type style of play??? This orientation being preset is messing up the way I want to play. It should be optional like all other play not mandatory for all preset sims. It should be changeable and preset to liking the opposite sex sim. That way anyone wanting some other storyline can fix it the way they want it and all the marriages and strait sims can like strait sims. It is nothing like it was before the patch and sims don't act the way they did before regardless of what the announcement said about them.
It stinks that it is glitchy, however, your idea that heterosexuality should be a default preset is problematic. People simply are not, by default, straight, any more than they are, by default, brown eyed with black (or brown/black) hair. Instead, the game randomizes things so that, just as in real life, sims come in varieties and no player or set of players will get to have the entire game default to something that matches them alone and excludes other people's realities. Nobody gets to have a world in which there is only one kind of Sim.
Sexual orientation and gender identity are ways in which real people vary, that is an innate characteristic, not a choice people make.
Your comment on marriage also seemed to imply that marriage = straight couples, but wherever their rights have been made equal, to marry and start families, LGBTQ people also marry, and many also start families. Some can have biological children, and for those who cannot, they have the same reproductive options or adoption options as infertile straight couples.
We all agree that it's immersion-breaking when a sim behaves counter to what their orientation and interests are supposed to be. But the solution is not to default all sims to being cis/hetero, any more than it would be a solution to default them all to gay.
