The Sims 4's Gallery feature lets you upload self-made Sims onto an online database, with a description to go along with them for other players' free use. However, if you try to upload a character described as "gay"... not so much!
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Of course, The Sims 4 (just as its predecessors) can have your Sims flirt indiscriminately without any restrictions on gender, but it's when you try to upload a Sim with the description "gay", "queer" or other keywords in this fashion that the homophobia hits the fan.
The snag was discovered by YouTuber Anna Eichenauer on her WhyStuffIsGreat channel. Check out the embedded video below to see her explain it. Honestly, one should probably take more offense at her creating a "gangsta rapper" than a "gay gangsta rapper". It's 2014, girl - DMX is a meme now!
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To be quite frank, EA's thought process behind not allowing words like "gay" comes from knowing the multiplayer game community well enough: where "gay" is typed out, often the f-word comes a-followin'. But the times they are a-changin', and it takes a good a-shakin' of conventions to root out such systemic discrimination.
Kotaku reached out to EA and received a statement saying that the ompany was "aware of [it and] have been working on a fix, which will be out soon." And really, that's all anyone can ask.
