Is The Sims A Virtual Dollhouse?

Because I build my sims a house - does not make me a carpenter any more than manipulating Sims makes you play like a child with dolls in a doll house. For one thing dolls do nothing - you have to pretend they do things and move them around etc. On the other hand Sims are much like real people living their lives. Left to do their own thing they will live their life with or with out you. No dollhouse does that. No doll house lets your dolls have babies and lets you raise them up to have families of their own. Dolls don't grow old and die - they never change.

Men have homes too, raise families, etc just like females do. It's not a doll kind of thing in my view. I have a number of good male friends and relatives who equally raise their kids in homes as their exes do. It's called living life - not playing dolls.