Storylegacysims On How The Sims Helped Them Discover Their Identity
The Sims has championed diversity and inclusion ever since the very first game was released, way back in 2000. Yet, ensuring that everyone feels represented is a daunting task that is constantly ongoing. This commitment of enabling all Simmers to be able to create themselves in the game has led to many players using The Sims as a tool to discover their sexuality and gender identity. Molly, also known as storylegacysims, shared how The Sims gave them a way to explore ideas considered taboo in their conservative Southern household.
“My best friend had the first game” Molly tells me. “At sleepovers, we’d stay up all night and make our Sims play out the most ridiculous stories. When The Sims 2 came out a year later, I was able to convince my parents to buy it for me.”
Related: It's Finally Time For The Sims 5Molly says their parents “were unaware of what exactly a ‘life simulator’ entailed, especially one as inclusive as The Sims.” It didn’t come without strings either. “One of their conditions for me playing was that I wouldn’t allow my Sims to engage in any sort of sexual behavior,” they recall.
However, Molly went into the series “with an extremely open mind and a lot of questions” after an earlier incident left them scared to face their sexuality. “When I was about eight or nine, I very proudly announced that I wanted to marry a girl one day. I was informed that that wasn’t allowed, it would send me to Hell. My sexuality immediately became my most closely guarded secret.”
In a conservative household, such views around sexuality are common, and like many others in the same situation Molly was left scarred by the revelations. “I think this was a great source of pain for most of my upbringing.”
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