strangetomato | Love it and Shove it

I have a gripe, but I also brought along something I like to balance it out. I'll start with the bad, then end with the good (like sugar after the medicine).

I've been enjoying the glimpse at Sims 3, but I've been turned off in a big way by the new heap of gender stereotyping and the fact that sims wish specifically for a male or female baby. I'm really hoping there's also a "don't give a shit" option.

And also that someone makes a mod to remove the blue/pink blankets or make them purple or bright red or anything other than the two gendered colours. 'Cause, you know, it's so important to know the gender of a baby. Otherwise, how would you know whether to say the baby is pretty or smart or strong or... and so on and so on. *gags*

(An image can be found in this GoS thread - just as an example, of course. My gripe is obviously with the game, not the player.)

But, lest I jump to conclusions, maybe this is just one of many options and we can now change the outfits of babies? I'm just making assumptions, based on the baby gender wants. *crosses fingers* Dear EAxis, please change this before the game is released. Oh, who am I kidding?

Now for the good, to wash that bitter taste from my mouth: the Late to the Party - Short Hair for Men mesh by fantasyrogue. This is a brilliant male hair mesh, in my opinion. I LOVE it. To echo my comments on her post at GoS, this really looks more like typical male hair to me (especially those gents who are 30+), which I'm always eager to have more of. I'm in love with the suggestion of a receeding/thinning hairline on this mesh, because so many guys do have that, and I find it endearing.

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Ugh... I didn't know they had wants for a specific sex of their baby. I don't particularly like that. Now, I do like the blanket idea (but I also wish it could be in more gender-neutral colors... or just a standard white or yellow baby blanket for all babies.)

So... if they can have a want for a girl, does that mean they have a fear of having a boy?

Mind you... that *can* mimic real life. I knew someone who just didn't ever get pregnant because she couldn't see herself parenting a boy and so didn't want to take that chance. Instead, she adopted two girls.

I can understand having a specific sex want. I didn't until I was pregnant with my fourth. By then I had a girl, boy, another girl, and my son really wanted a brother. I wanted a brother *for* him. DENIED, lol. Then the next time... same thing. He wanted a brother and I hated to "disappoint" (silly, I know... like I could do anything about it, but still...) DENIED AGAIN, lol.

What was funny was with the sixth kid, EVERYONE just assumed he'd be a girl... my oldest son included. So we were all really surprised, lol!

Anyway, I hope they don't have a fear of having the other sex, because that just seems sort of sad. :(

My grandmother was the 8th child, and there were already seven girls. So EVERYONE said it HAD to be a boy this time around, and they were going to call him Jon. So all through the pregnancy, the baby was referred to as Jon. Then she came out...and she wasn't a Jon. Even though she was named Genevieve, she was called Jon all her life by friends and family. It just stuck!

Baby 9 was the boy they'd been hoping for, but they rounded it out by another girl for number 10. Damn they bred a lot.

O.O

Not so bad as my sister-in-law's family - her mother (or grandmother, I can never remember) was one of twenty. twenty. All of which survived adulthood.

Do you know what the male/female split was?

(Is that a bad question to ask?)

I have no idea at all. I've never asked!

My grandmother's one of... thirteen, I think. IIRC, she's like the third oldest.

Sounds like my grandma on my dad's side . . . whopping eight kids, with only the oldest and the second to youngest being boys. *chuckle*

It doesn't help that most of my aunts have 's' names!

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