isn't it nice?

Played it, then played it again, and again. I may not be a trans woman, but I could just feel the awkwardness of witnessing a cis person trying (and failing) to be nice, because they just don't understand. Very well made.

Short and straightforward tale of a cis hairdresser trying to be supportive of a trans customer and getting it badly wrong. CW: gender stereotypes, ignorance. 3/5 stars - enjoyable.

nightmare. loved it. simple story-telling from our perspective <3

Ugh, how exhausting to be treated this way. At the end of the day, well-meaning ignorance is still ignorance. Thank you for making this; it’s a really well-made bitsy and it inspires thought and consideration.

i need this hairdresser bc all the ones i find are just something dgahgshjfwjs

Jesus Christ this is horrifying. I hope that you're okay. It's awful that we have to constantly use our pain to transform it into art, but that is our reality. I hope it gets better for us, I hope you are surrounded by love and support, and what an amazing piece you submitted.

Are you not excited not being called slurs?

I'm just so fucking tired. I'm a badass woman and I want to be badass, but every time I don combat boots and cargo pants instead of a pink dress everybody is like "oooh have you changed your mind?"

Thank you for this one. It was amazing.

It is nice, the game that is. Dealing with people, sometimes less so.
Thank you a lot for sharing your experience!

I wanted to have words with the hairdresser by the end of the haircut.

Buzz cut ending too, I just...something smelled right when that choice came up. You did an amazing job at capturing that seething feeling of being trapped under a spotlight and being expected to explain yourself. To fit their ideas, to be one of the 'good ones'. 

It just hits hard and hits close, I still claw at the rarified feminine idea but sometimes I rage and hit and spit at it, at the daft pile of performative rubble I'm supposed to climb. When my resolve breaks and I'm shaving my legs at midnight because it's going to be hot the next day and as much as I think that entire exercise is pure fucking bullshit, I can't stand the thought of carrying that masculine signal with me. Trying to negotiate my existence between the 'bite me' feminist who could burn it down and the 'headpats please' trans girl who just wants to be.

This is, this is way, way too real. This is amazing. Thank you. 

As usual, I really loved your game. That hairdresser was sooo obnoxious omg. I really like how this game confronts the player with a daily cringe situation you had to face (and that trans women often have to face), and how you give us your thoughts about it in the end. And Bitsy works perfectly for that.

I picked the radical ending and completely cut my hair off. It felt liberating, even if it was just a game. I might do just that some day. I’ve been thinking about a buzz cut for some weeks now. And doing a few piercing. I don’t know if I’ll have the guts to do that but… Your game really made me wanna do it for good.