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HelpAgreed, and if I may vent my own spleen...
in reply to a message by Tippins
...They're always so damned white. It's boring, and there's something a bit disconcerting to me about the fact that they're nearly always full of WASPy looking Caucasian families. And when someone has made an effort to add some variety to the pictures (as I did on more than one occasion), they never quite manage to win, do they?
I feel like there's this weird, subconscious "we only think white babies are pretty" undercurrent to them a lot of the time.
On the other hand, there's an ethnocentricity that pervades the whole game board, and I don't think it can be helped. I think it becomes significantly more obvious when there are pictures, though.
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I feel like there's this weird, subconscious "we only think white babies are pretty" undercurrent to them a lot of the time.
On the other hand, there's an ethnocentricity that pervades the whole game board, and I don't think it can be helped. I think it becomes significantly more obvious when there are pictures, though.
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Yeah, I agree that they all were pretty white. I once had a family with an Indian mother, but it was so damn hard to find pictures of Indian families, particularly ones that could "win". I eventually had to abandon that family because I was spending too much time looking for pictures. :::Shrug::: At least I tried.
I also thought the funniest part was how at the beginning on the game the family was supposed to consist of a young couples just getting married, yet everybody puts them in these huge, beautiful (well, sometimes) homes. What kind of 23 year-olds live in places like that?! Yet, of course, if you post a picture of something more realistic, there was no hope of winning.
I thought picture contests were fun at first, and I tried my hand at them, but honestly I think they got old fast. The same pictures are used over and over again. I don't particularly mind them being here, but I'm through with them myself.
I also thought the funniest part was how at the beginning on the game the family was supposed to consist of a young couples just getting married, yet everybody puts them in these huge, beautiful (well, sometimes) homes. What kind of 23 year-olds live in places like that?! Yet, of course, if you post a picture of something more realistic, there was no hope of winning.
I thought picture contests were fun at first, and I tried my hand at them, but honestly I think they got old fast. The same pictures are used over and over again. I don't particularly mind them being here, but I'm through with them myself.
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I agree with the whole WASPy look of things. I started trying to find very Greek-looking people, but found that I never got votes for anything. I also found the homes amusing. The game I'm in now is the only one I've ever been in, and when the first photo I had to get was a house I purposely chose a small one with an overgrowing garden (though still nice, I thought.) Then I went through what photos everyone else had posted and knew I wasn't going to win with my realistic little house :(
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