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Stereotype : Pastel is girl only ?
LeGardePourpre
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Hi,
Once again guys are banned, pastel is totally forbidden
Once again guys are banned, pastel is totally forbidden
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its just easy to display all the items in this type of room rather than say make bathroom or whatever
similarily you could ask if people who wear glasses and do sports are more messy than people who don't since that was pretty much all the clutter kit had
then again yeah i do kinda see myself using this more in teen rooms less so in my man caves so hopefully we get dude dude kit for our "masculine men manning" one day
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionI think the promo images are explicit
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionLooking at the picture posted in the OP does it look like a manly man rough and tough dude pack? Absolutely not. But there is nothing wrong with that either. Everything does not have to be filtered and washed away into gender neutrality until all we're left with is black and white.
Nothing wrong with girly girly stuff or manly man stuff that "anyone" can use to their liking. I'm still waiting on my tough dude manly Thor pack π€ πͺ.
I personally wouldn't use all pink pastel for my guy sims room but I'm sure there are other swatches for my sims who want bright colors and designs. One of my guy sims room was designed in pastel blue and yellow for an adventure time room like the cartoon.
And when it comes to clothing I think guys look amazing in pastel π
"Manly Man Vroom Vroom" kit
and
"Splish Splash Pool Fun" kit
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
*pulls out my wallet*
Those would be release day buys for me (which I don't do often)
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I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Clicked on the active EverydayClutterKit at the end and the first thing that came up was the posting saying "Calling all hens" regarding the Pastel kit. Seems to settle it.
It's one of those TikTok-native aesthetic microtrends along with others like Dark Academia. No doubt when she wrote that tweet, she was already asked by EA to inspire a Kit and she wanted to do it based on this aesthetic. Of course, it's just furniture and has no gender, but it's especially popular among Gen Z females.
Should've been called "The Ultimate Guy Deterrent Kit".
Here's the thing, personally I wouldn't choose to enter a room like that unless the furniture is edible and deliciously scrumptious - I love pastel flavoured candies & icecream- ; there'd be nothing left but bare space, although if I had to be one of those Golden Ticket kids that were invited to do The Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory Tour I'd probably be Charlie, believe it or not. Or to be brutally honest, I'd probably be Willy Wonka himself, if not a tallish Oompa Loompa.
On the other hand, I'm sure there's plenty of males who'd be utterly content to live in a pastel plumbella space such as this without feeling the urge to devour the furniture.
The reason I'm not a fan of this style is not because I'm a guy, but because I happen to be a guy who isn't a fan of this style. Also doesn't mean that all of a sudden I dislike Plumbella. She seems sound, although I've never met her and I probably never will.
Some of my sims however, may very well be interested in decorating their bedrooms with pink wonky candles and muddly puddly mirrors. Who knows. Who knows.
Yes, that's actually something that would bother me: I dislike pack titles that refer to gender, because it's imposing an idea on how I as a customer should think about these items in relation to that gender, which is just as bad as using gender stereotypical titles such as "Teenage Gal Room kit". At this point we should be beyond all that nonsense for it is not helping society, never has, especially the one we currently live in...
Surely we're more creative than that?
This is also one of the reasons -only ONE of them- I still don't own Modern Menswear. Fine lads, wear a miniskirt, but don't tell me that that's today's definition of modern menswear - just like fancy suits shouldn't be regarded as THE definition of Modern Menswear - again, not because I give a hootin' scooter about what folks wear - sure, you look gorgeous, whatever - but because I don't like anyone telling me how to think about what / how men / women should wear what. A dreadful and confusing sentence which I hope makes sense.
But of course I would buy that kit right away! Give me anything with 'Vroom Vroom" in the title and I'm sold. π
People complain about it being gender stereotyping but that's just another instance of non verbal communication. Pink is for girls and blue is for boys as much as black is for mourning and red is for parties. No one says you shouldn't wear blue as a girl, or pink as a boy, but some people will assume differently based on this, the same way if you were to show up to a funeral wearing red.
Thats a bit of an apples and oranges comparison, but I get what you're saying. On one hand it's necessary to understand who you're interacting with to have the proper context. But it also becomes something that gets narrowly and rigidly defined. Having a defined color to represent mourning is different than assigned colors to represent gender. Even then its like saying there's only one way to mourn and show respect for the dead and if you're not wearing black you're doing it wrong. It really all comes down to this unyielding belief that everything and everyone has to have clearly defined labels and clearly defined roles meeting up with people's fear of things that represent change or even the potential for change from the status quo.
I'm a hippy-dippy, peace and love type. I want to see the world throw off the constraints of labeling and let's just live and let live. It's never going to happen, not fully and completely, but we could come a whole lot closer to it than where humanity is right now.
Isnβt that just Plumbellas catch phrase, though?
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Hey Hens
A common phrase used by Sims Youtuber Plumbella as an intro.
Hens is a slang term referring to woman, but in this case she uses it to group her audience.