Forum Discussion
4 years ago
I think it would be a huge mess, because they'd need to stereotype and generalize puberty. My puberty wasn't difficult as such. The things I was going through in my life at the time were horrendous, but it wasn't due to puberty but external factors. I didn't get acne. Didn't have a lot of mood swings, didn't go through "phases".
But aside from the fact that puberty isn't the same for everyone, and that generalizations about it are already kind of inappropriate, fair representation would need to be present, across the lines of gender minorities as well. I guess it could be represented that everyone goes through mood swings and acne (even though that's not true) but beyond that, what? those things are already in the Parenthood pack, so they don't need adding. Getting too much in the weeds is unnecessary, and are they going to present a cis/hetero-exclusive version of it, or are they going to have a lot of backlash for being more real and inclusive? Any time the game goes into too much detail about sensitive topics, it's going to either exclude some people, or tick off and offend others.
But aside from the fact that puberty isn't the same for everyone, and that generalizations about it are already kind of inappropriate, fair representation would need to be present, across the lines of gender minorities as well. I guess it could be represented that everyone goes through mood swings and acne (even though that's not true) but beyond that, what? those things are already in the Parenthood pack, so they don't need adding. Getting too much in the weeds is unnecessary, and are they going to present a cis/hetero-exclusive version of it, or are they going to have a lot of backlash for being more real and inclusive? Any time the game goes into too much detail about sensitive topics, it's going to either exclude some people, or tick off and offend others.