Reading Girl Frame as a cis-het male was a very interesting experience. From the very start it made me uncomfortable imagining myself playing out the results of Plays, especially in mixed gender group (though a bunch of cis-het guys playing this on their own seems inappropriately weird in its own way).
I have seldom been hit with my own position in the patriarchal sexual hierarchy quite as hard by a piece of written media. To play this kind emotional, sexual and social abuse and toxicity as cis-het guy, inside a fictional story about lesbians... I truly felt that this was simply not a place where I should or even could be without it carrying heavy out of game connotations and effects.
This led me down an internet rabbit hole reading blogs and posts from all over about trans-feminine and lesbian life experiences and while I can't say exactly what I've learned I do think I learned a thing or two, and I have more things to think about and learn.
So thank you for making Girl Frame. It has impacted me and made me think about my own gender and sexuality as they exist in the real world in a way I had not expected it to do. I'm not sure I'll ever play it, but it has given me something and I was deeply moved.
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