Who do you play as?? (Race and Gender wise)
I'm really curious if it's just me. I'm a 23 year old Black female simmer. And I've been mostly making and playing families of color with focus on black males. For example, I'm currently playing with ...
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This is a really interesting question! :smiley:
I am white, and although I am mostly okay with people seeing me as female, I was raised in a very gender neutral upbringing somewhat isolated from broader society until I was in my teens. So my feelings about my gender are somewhat complicated.
I mostly play with male sims as far as the body-frame goes, but I play around with aspects of masculine, feminine, or ambiguous gender expressions often, as well as the different pregnancy related options. Some of my male sims are very feminine. I do make some female sims, but more often as background characters. Female sims I do play with tend to be very nerdy and/or "tom-boy" personalities with very little "feminine" expression (rather like myself and the women I grew up around). The more feminine females are usually background characters that I don't play with much.
I also have a mild form of prosopagnosia (also known as "face blindness"). This doesn't mean I can't see faces, but it does mean I have a hard time identifying individual people by their faces. I use other cues such as hair color, hairstyle, gait, skin color, build, height, voice, clothing, personality, or context to help me recognize people that I know. In certain situations, I have even had trouble recognizing my own family members and friends! :flushed: That can be embarrassing, so I've gotten really good at faking it until I figure out who someone is.
Because of this, when I play households with multiple sims, I like to make the members of the household look really different from each other in terms of hair color, hair style, skin color, clothing style etc. It helps me tell them apart from each other.
I am white, and although I am mostly okay with people seeing me as female, I was raised in a very gender neutral upbringing somewhat isolated from broader society until I was in my teens. So my feelings about my gender are somewhat complicated.
I mostly play with male sims as far as the body-frame goes, but I play around with aspects of masculine, feminine, or ambiguous gender expressions often, as well as the different pregnancy related options. Some of my male sims are very feminine. I do make some female sims, but more often as background characters. Female sims I do play with tend to be very nerdy and/or "tom-boy" personalities with very little "feminine" expression (rather like myself and the women I grew up around). The more feminine females are usually background characters that I don't play with much.
I also have a mild form of prosopagnosia (also known as "face blindness"). This doesn't mean I can't see faces, but it does mean I have a hard time identifying individual people by their faces. I use other cues such as hair color, hairstyle, gait, skin color, build, height, voice, clothing, personality, or context to help me recognize people that I know. In certain situations, I have even had trouble recognizing my own family members and friends! :flushed: That can be embarrassing, so I've gotten really good at faking it until I figure out who someone is.
Because of this, when I play households with multiple sims, I like to make the members of the household look really different from each other in terms of hair color, hair style, skin color, clothing style etc. It helps me tell them apart from each other.
