Sims 2 and Discrimination... these two don't mix.
eccentricgnat:
I suppose we all say things sometimes that come out wrong. I know I do.
I play the sims much the way my family and my husbands family are and is. When we get together, with his family, it looks like a wonderful rainbow of everyone. I am not exaggerating. It has been wonderful because now when I get to see my own wonderful older daughter and really cool son-in-law...I get to see more rainbow. And my grandkids are so beautiful. So our personal family picture is made up of lots of blond haired, and American Indian (me) type folks, and Japanese. I wouldn't trade any of it or them. So I agree, the world has changed from when I was young, and I am one of the lucky ones to have so many folks, from so many cultures, make up my family, and make up who my kids and grandkids are.
Chaavik:
People fear change and the unknown, so they do that. It is sad how much the world had changed. I grew up in the 70s and 80s when we used to play outside with kids in the neighborhood and used to worry about little things like toys, candy, tv shows and the like. Nothing like what kids worry about today.
Discrimination is an -awful- experience for anybody to go through no matter who they are, whether they're of different colors, disabilities, backgrounds, religions and the like.
Sims 2 is supposed to be a fun game for anybody to play however they want. To have someone come in to dictate how these people should play the game is bad.. Very bad. If anyone comes in to tell me how I should play my game, I do what I am good at.. Turn a deaf ear on that person!
Amira:
Thanks Tenshii for this post.
I remember when I posted my Muslim Sim family on INSIM, everyone loved them and I got back up from the community. When other simmers saw interest and decided to make Islamic clothing, there was a few idiots on here throwing a fit. The sad part is I'm sure it was an active member or a guest who made a new "sn" with only 1 post to bash my religion and the clothing. What an idiot I thought. Do we honestly have to play the game to their liking? MTS2 is OMG I hate that site really. They allow members to bash your religions,sex,etc... I wanted to post my Muslim Sim family there and when I said " I'll report anyone who bashes my religion and sims" MTS2 said I was "threating" members! WTF. Anyway, love you Tenshii!and thanks for opening up this topic.
Tenshii~Akari:
:angel: Glad to do so. To be honest, I wanted to do something like this for a while, but I couldn't get the words right... then it all suddenly hit me when a good friend of mine confided in me because of a racial remark aimed towards them. I guess pent up frustration over it all just helped me to form something that's coherent to say the least. :lol:
Seems like everyone has brought up good points with this issue. Remain quiet and ignore them, outsmart said offender without use of normal anger, ... It'll work in certain situations, that's for sure. Just attacking them back in the same exact manner they did you doesn't do anything but make everyone else that's onlooking get p'ed off and add more fuel to flames. Then everything goes down the drain, people get banned, and threads get locked/deleted. Seen it happen on a certain small gaming forum that's long gone now, but I'm sure it's going on just as heavy somewhere. :?
I actually met someone from school that was in the computer lab the other day who liked to start stuff online just for the heck of it. (mainly on the notorious YouTube, but on MySpace, Facebook, and a few small forums she frequently lurks in.) She said that people love drama, and love to be the center of it even more at times. When she gets bored, she tries to ruffle other people's feathers so she can have something to keep her occupied while on the net. She even said it's funnier when people just degrade down into 6-year-olds and go back and forth with name-calling and cussing (which is almost un-6-year-oldish where I'm from), then unintelligible and off-topic babble follows. I asked her if she had anything else better to do on the internet than that... and she simply replied, "Not really. And if I did, it ain't as fun as this." If that just isn't sick, then there's a problem. She has a really odd sense of humor... :roll:
Spongity:
Well, your friend has a point, Tenshii, that drama on the internet starts quickly and escalates even quicker. And when that drama does start, people tend to resort to 6-year-old-ness. I sometimes think that people enjoy the stupid drama, but I don't think anyone likes the kind of drama that involves racial, ethnic, or religious slurs. When it is the stupid kind of drama, though, people often take that waayyyy too seriously, and I'll admit that sometimes it can be a laugh to watch that. I doubt I'd ever go out of my way to start that, though, and anyone who does has way too much time on their hands XD
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