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How traditional are your female sims?
Simmerville
Posts: 11,673 Member
Happy International Women's Day!
Want to contribute to a not-so-serious survey?
My guess is that in most sim families the mom has higher cooking skills than dad. Not because the game requires it, but because you more often send your female to the kitchen. Let's find out if this is reality!
In your game please check 5 households that you played actively for minimum a sim week. Elderly couples might be the better, but no restriction.
The criteria is:
- Household must be in Willow Creek or Oasis Spring (If you don't play these worlds look elsewhere, but pls state what world you checked).
- Household must contain a formally established male/female couple (married or not, kids or not).
- Household shall not have a butler or any sort of live-in servants.
- Neither the Female nor Male can have a Food related aspiration.
- Check Cooking skills of Female and Male.
- You get 1 point for each couple where the Male has higher cooking skills than the Female.
What's your score?
Any comment on your result?
Want to contribute to a not-so-serious survey?
My guess is that in most sim families the mom has higher cooking skills than dad. Not because the game requires it, but because you more often send your female to the kitchen. Let's find out if this is reality!
In your game please check 5 households that you played actively for minimum a sim week. Elderly couples might be the better, but no restriction.
The criteria is:
- Household must be in Willow Creek or Oasis Spring (If you don't play these worlds look elsewhere, but pls state what world you checked).
- Household must contain a formally established male/female couple (married or not, kids or not).
- Household shall not have a butler or any sort of live-in servants.
- Neither the Female nor Male can have a Food related aspiration.
- Check Cooking skills of Female and Male.
- You get 1 point for each couple where the Male has higher cooking skills than the Female.
What's your score?
Any comment on your result?
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Comments
1) Dunn family in Willow Creek = 1 point (yay)
2) Taylor family in Willow Creek = 0
3) McGinnis family in Willow Creek = 0
4) Banks family in Oasis Springs = 0
5) Roberts family in Oasis Springs = 0
Lol. I have to admit that I do tend to follow stereotypes - you know, male sims doing the handy chores, the woodworking etc, females doing the cooking and cleaning. Really should get out of that habit!
Oaksdale (Willow Farm, WC) = 0
Mugger (Mugger Farm, WC) = 1 point
Ferny (OS) = 0
Rosewood (OS) = 0
Morck (OS) = 0
Hm... I actually expected to score at least 3... in one case the elderly male had only 1 single skill point in cooking, ha!
Brooks Family (Strangerville)=Both maxed it
Brooks/Nash Family (Sulani)=0
Brooks/Behr Family (Sulani)=1
Brooks/Fyres Family (Strangerville)= Both maxed it
Brooks/Villareal Family (Strangerville)=1
This was interesting since in rl I think men should pull their weight around the kitchen to
Laurels: 0.5
I do play three heterosexual couples on my rotation though, so I checked in with them, though I don't really cook with them (I cheat needs a lot) so most of this is autonomous skill building on their parts lol. I will say I tend to be more invested in my lesbian couples and gameplay with them, so they probably all have better skills than these poor sims listed below.
The Keyes family, who lives in Willow Creek: 0
Marin, level 6
Desmond, level 2
The Goldstein family, who lives in Oasis Springs: 0
Tallulah, level 6
Fred, level 4
My mermaid couple in Sulani (not married yet): A tie? Still no points lol
Alana, level 1
Micah, level 1
(These two are one of my newer couples so they have not built many practical skills apparently)
Ok, I fail lol. My few heterosexual couples are painfully traditional
Other than that, the closest thing I have is a patchwork family in Evergreen Harbor where the teenage son runs the household while his mother is busy with either her criminal endeavours or her much younger toy boy lover (who the son also has an affair with when she isn't looking). I don't play (straight) couples or traditional families often, but when I do, then yeah, the woman is usually the one doing the cooking. I guess some old stereotypes die hard.
Thanks for this fun survey!
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
2) Kiara 10 (gourmet cooking 5) & Hisoka 10 (gourmet cooking 1), WC = 0
3) Prospero 5 & Henrietta 6, OS = 0
4) Unelma 10 & Jarno 7, OS = 0
5) Alex 10 (gourmet cooking 5) & Elsi 10 (gourmet cooking 3), OS = 1
I have some couples that prefer traditional gender roles and with that in mind I was surprised how even my couples cooking skills were. I guess I also like doing the opposite. I find in this game it's pretty hard to not learn how to cook unless you intentionally stop a sim from cooking. I had two ties which I solved with gourmet cooking skills. This was a fun and interesting exercise.
Updated with Werewolf Diaries (1)
Husband is a Chef, Wife is an Actress
• The Steel Family (Oasis Springs) = 1
Husband is in the Military, Wife is a Doctor
• The Eubanks/Bhalla Family (Oasis Springs) = 1
Husband is a Chef, Wife is an Athlete
• The Westbrook Family (Oasis Springs) = 0
Husband is in Business career, Wife is Social Media career
• The Mungnari Family (Brindleton Bay) = 1
Husband is a Stay-At-Home Dad, Wife is in the Business career
Generally, everyone who can cook participates. Not really gender specific roles in my households.
Does the aspiration also mean their career can’t be in Culinary? Because in that case I’d only have two points. 😅
2. San Myshuno - Flower Bunny (5)/Zion Champagne II (10) - 1 (for same reasons as first couple)
3. San Myshuno - Arya Pia Champagne (10)/Tristan Champagne (10) - ?
4. Willow Creek - Cora Goldman Xander (10)/Felix Goldman Xander (10) - ?
5. Willow Creek - Aria Goldman Xander Lillard Durand
My sims cook for themselves, I don't manage that.
I though of the career too late, so let's just say that each can exclude those couples if they feel like it. Working in Culinary will obviously help on the skills, but let's not take this survey too seriously, taking it into consideration like you just did goes a long way
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
The couples
Beaufort-Morris, married, Brindleton Bay: Female at 2, male at 4 (plus baking)
Winter, married, Oasis Springs: Both female and male at 10
The siblings
Squires, twins, Strangerville: Female at 3, male at 7 (plus baking and gourmet)
Westwind, sister and brother, Willow Creek: Female at 4, male at 8 (plus gourmet)
I usually just let them do as they please regarding food, so when they are hungry they may choose to cook or they may choose to eat leftovers or quick meals. But when I do direct one of them to cook, it's usually the man.
In two of the above households, the female sim is a scientist while the male sim mainly earns money through gardening. In one of them, the female sim has level 10 handiness while the male sim has level 2 handiness. And in one, the male sim has level 8 parenting while the female sim has level 5. So I think I just sort of lean toward playing my males more domestically in general.
It was interesting to take a look at these households, because I honestly wasn't sure. I don't play any of them very often, compared to my all-male households.
My score would be a massive 0. No matter how many households I have. I don’t even have to look, it’s a guaranteed fail.
In fact I’m so bad that I’d stop my male from cooking a meal so the female can do it. In my game she’d be the traditional homemaker and I would actually cheat her cooking skill to between 7 & 10 by default because of it.
Indeed, I’m so terrifyingly old fashioned that it’s probably best for me to apologize while I’m here. 😅
Ladies. I apologize. 😇
The wife is a gardener and the husband is a paranormal investigator. Since he works at night, he prepares all the food during the day.
2. Kinross family, Windenburg = 0
The family consists entirely of gardeners. The wife cooks.
3. LaVondra-Porter family, Oasis Springs = 1
The girlfriend works in retail and the boyfriend works from home. They always buy take-out, but since the boyfriend is usually home, he'll prepare food more often.
4. Zephyr, San Myshuno = Tie
Neither of them cook more than the other. But in my game, sims who attend a private school as teens must get about 3 skills in several courses. They both went to that school and both took Cooking as an elective.
5. Stellar-Aiba family, Mt. Komorebi = 0
The family is very traditional. The husband works as a fisherman and handyman, and the wife sells flower arrangements from home. The wife is always home, so she makes the food.
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
Ragamuffin Jones and Cameron Fletcher, ghosts who've been married for 4 generations. Ragamuffin started as a freegan with the botanist aspiration so I knew that cooking from the garden was going to be her thing from the beginning. She maxed cooking early on and Cameron definitely hasn't. 0 points
Marcellus Jones (Ragamuffin and Cameron's son) and Karla Ely. Now deceased. Marcellus was a stay-at-home homeschooling dad who also did lots of gardening and garden cooking and had maxed cooking skill. Karla, like Cameron, was a techie who pretty much never cooked. 1 point
Richard and Eunice Park. They have been alive for just over a sim week but they're in a rotational game so I haven't played them for a week yet. Richard's cooking skill is 1 and Eunice doesn't even have a cooking skill! Their teen daughter Lydia, an aspiring chef, has cooking skill 3. Oddly, this couple is my most traditional gender-role couple of all time; the only reason Eunice hasn't cooked is a combination of Lydia's cooking and the fact that she's a stay-at-home mom with one kid who started as a toddler and one who just became a toddler and is all about the childcare all the time right now. 1 point
Happy international women's day!