Patch and Base Game Update Discussion (New Patch released today 7/26)
The following issues are scheduled to be resolved in Tuesday's patch. https://x.com/TheSimsDirect/status/1810695291974381592
Forum Discussion
the update is nice so far though I wonder why they said they want to be more inclusive but took away husband, fiance why can't we have both groups of terms? That is a valid question
I agree that it's not really inclusive if they exclude gender appropriate terms. They should offer the alternative of the gender ambiguous terms for those who want to use them but not remove the traditionally gendered options.
Yeah that's all I'm saying, I have a lot of sims that wouldn't have been called traditional but I would have liked to be able to represent all my sims...some of us spend a lot of time with their simmies so it matters. Whatever, just curious.
I feel the same here, it almost makes me not want to update, because this is not at all the terminology I use. I really don't understand why they changed it completely rather than adding it in as an option for those that want it. They can call it inclusive all they want, but it isn't inclusive to those like me that liked it the way it was. I do hope modders give us back the option for husband/wife and girlfriend/boyfriend.
I miss those and I was worried, but in my own language they switch the term to the status too, the replacement word for Boyfriend/Girlfriend its kind of cute. I haven't heard it in like 30 years, and it's named like a dating show from that time. With that status thing they could offer the next steps with divorce or widowed.
In general I'm okay with neutral term, I use them from time to time, since the names from the foreigners not always really familiar to me to use the correct greeting form, however I don't like it that the inclusive speak makes biological women invisible again. We fight centuries to get more visible in the language and now, just after a short time, it's gone again. It feels for me like a backstep and betrayel of our achievements.
