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Brave move with the new Muslim content. (In a good way)
thelawtman
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I have to applaud Maxis for being brave enough to put in Muslim items in the game. With the horrible amount of bad stigma associated with Muslim culture and the people I am happy to see them included in the Sims. They team has never been shy to add other cultures in it so it is nice to see some representation. I just hope from some of the comments that I have seen here that people can be respectful to this, no matter what your beliefs.
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It's not as if prayer mats or beads( tasbeeh) were included. It is just like a regular headscarf. No big deal.😁
Charming.
I'll say, I'm happy for players who wish to put Hijab on their sims. I support cultural, spiritual, gender based, and all other types of game play that my brain just won't come up with right now.
I most likely won't use them. Simply, I hate hats in Sims 4 and feel that not every single sim would wear one for every blasted outfit and currently that's how hats seem to work in my game.
I love the new content and was excited to get it knowing I could add it where it fit. In fact the first thing I did after thr update was make a family for the gallery using all the new cas items.
What I don't like, however, is having my comments deleted from other threads just for saying that I have already had sims rock up in tiny party dresses and a hijab. They keep saying that these items are not going to be put on random sims, but they somehow are in my unmodded game? I don't enjoy being told I'm just going crazy over here having another clothing item that is great in context, but not just slapped on randomly to any old sim.
If they did that - and, according to design documents from the original The Sims, they were leaning that way - I wouldn't be able to play my gay Sims. But, by happy accident, old design guides were followed, same-sex romance was enabled, and a chance interaction during an E3 live demo thirty years ago launched The Sims with a lot of positive buzz. It was in fact the right choice to take the more inclusive route, and has been a staple design principle of the studio ever since. I sincerely hope it always will be.
I didn't see your thread until it was closed, so I'll say it here: Bravo!
Headscarves could be seen as cultural when worn as an accessory, useful to protect from the sand, the wind, and the sun. But hijabs are a very peculiar (and I would argue, recognizable) kind or headscarf, worn for other reasons (you know, those that-must-not-be-named except in threads about muslim outfits in which we can discuss modesty all we want). Those are only part of one interpretation of Islam (the one that starts with a R and ends with a L) that as you said not all muslims agree with.
In any case EA added burkinis as well, which are very far from being cultural and don't even exist in most arabian and middle-eastern cultures, and you would have a hard time arguing they are just cultural and it is people who twisted their otherwise empty meaning. There is a reason EA doesn't want us to talk about it on its very forums, and it is because it is religious and political.
But outside of that issue.. could we just be glad that EA is trying to be more cultural diverse in a game like the Sims?
I'm going to be using a CC hijab later in my Swanson story twice for non-Muslims purposes and the 2nd time I might throw in some of the EA's hijab stuff
Yet on the EA presentation it was called a hijab and not a headscarf. So calling it a headscarf is wrong as that is not what EA released it as..
A woman wearing whatever she feels comfortable wearing is never "degrading," and nor should it open her up to receiving unwanted advances. We know that many women ARE sexualised in the western entertainment industry (especially in music), but that doesn't diminish the fact that countries that enforce women to cover up in public (such as Saudi Arabia) are equally toxic. If a woman feels comfortable wearing a bikini or a sheer dress she has the right to do so, just as a woman who feels comfortable wearing long-sleeved shirts and head-coverings has the right to do so, because we have the privilege (although it shouldn't be a privilege) of living in a democratic country with a free society. And so do our Sims.
A hijab is used to cover a woman’s breasts?