"Gordy;c-18315930" wrote:
Not trying to be rude or anything. I get where you're coming from with this and I think it's totally valid to want to respect their identities. But I do feel like there's an unintentional element of bisexual stereotyping in that line of thinking. Like being attracted to women makes the sims less LGBT, or more likely to cheat on their partner. I absolutely don't think you're biphobic. I think you're a nice, caring and respectful person. But I just felt that this needed to be mentioned, because it could easily be taken in the wrong way.
I knew the risks of asking something like this alienating bi or pan players and tried to be as respectful as possible so I'm sorry if anything I say hurts or invalidates you or other people.
Bisexual people and sims aren't any less queer if you compare them to lesbian or gay ones just because they can love somebody of the opposite gender as well.
There is however something about seeing that the only queer male characters in games and other media are also ones that are interested in the opposite gender that to me, as a gay man, communicates that the only acceptable way I and any other man like me can exist within anything is if we were also able to at the drop of a hat sexually reproduce in order to "contribute" to society. This isn't to devalue bi men but to point out that our shared attraction to the same gender is seen as something threatening that people would rather either treat as a mutable and optional thing for cishet men or as an exotic incomprehensible thing for women. The first part is true for most popular role playing games in the past decade (at least the ones that even bother with having queer characters either as romantic options or just npcs in general).
As for the second part... Since the sims as a series has a playerbase that skews heavily towards women and since there are dozens of playstyles and challenges that center around having their sims go through uncountable amounts of cisgender heterosexual female pregnancy with essentially any male sim they can get their hands on, I'd at least like a measure that semi permanently prevents them from reducing the heckings into breeding fodder. Women can already be creepy about gay men online and irl that I'd rather not have to deal with that when interacting with other simmers that have even unintentionally done that.
