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"Ray_Trace;c-17871630" wrote:"Scobre;c-17871620" wrote:
Why I shake my head when people say that the Sims games should be made for women only when it is actually the most toxic games on the market towards women and the women that make the game.
Yeah, people who say the Sims should be made for women only are ludicrous, if there are any: it's like telling me, a woman, that games like Left 4 Dead 2 should be catered exclusively to men.
I strongly disagree with the idea that the Sims is the most toxic community for girls out there. A lot of shooting games such as Rainbow Six Siege or Left 4 Dead 2 has women getting harassed whenever they voice chat (especially if you watch the OMG a girl series on YouTube), people constantly calling them "grills", sexually harassing them, talking down on them, and begging for "their Instagram", and assuming they're 12 year old boys because they sound like them. Girls are rare to find online, most of them mute or lie about being prepubescent boys because of that type of harassment. Even online I had random guys trying to flirt with me, calling me a "gamer girl", and while it was cute, it just reeks a level of desperation. I don't think any of the Sim Gurus or female Sim YouTubers experienced this level of harassment that women receive in other games.
Even IRL when I attended a lounge for friendlies in Super Smash Bros. 4, while I was playing friendlies with another guy, people said "oh you're getting beaten by a girl" and while it was in friendly taste and all, this is all too common online when you venture out of the Sims.
I don't know what League of Legends is like for girls but the Riot Games studio itself was extremely notorious for gamer bro attitudes and toxic workplace against women to the point where they got sued. That's all my experience with it because I don't have much interest in competitive PvP which breeds general toxicity anyway.
The boys do harass Simmer girls on social media too with Twitch, Twitter, Youtube, and Discord. Why the Sims 5 going online would be a bad idea. I have seen it myself. They tend to target the Sims channels more with much more crude comments than that knowing the target market is older women. It is quite sad really. Then again being a mod for those channels we tend to try to catch those type of behavioral issues right away. Especially for the bigger game changers with all the people that hit on them a lot. Plus I have been around when SimGuruKate got the blame for a male game changers behavior. There have been death threats towards Gurus before too. So yes it is worst than LOL. Been around with racial slurs thrown towards women too.
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