#dec 8

Early arrivals wait outside the U.S. Army Recruiting Service headquarters before the office opens for the day to receive applications for enlistment on December 8, 1941, the day U.S. Congress declared war on Japan in World War II.

Friend from work has new girlfriend (yay! Was genuinely happy for her).

New girlfriend is self-admittedly "new to the trans thing." Not ideal but hey we live in one of the only purple counties in a red state so it's lucky that we find accepting people at all even if they'll need some hand-holding.

New girlfriend brought a few of her friends to visit my work friend at work and introduced my friend as "the boyfriend" and made a joke about having been turned bisexual after all. Very publicly.

When pretty much the one thing we had assumed new girlfriend understood clearly was that my work friend is her girlfriend, not her boyfriend. And that this has no impact on her sexuality at all actually.

Work friend already struggles to assert a boundary at the best of times (i.e. one-on-one in a place that doesn't put Customer Service Situation pressure on her). Having to make the split second decision of whether to correct her girlfriend in front of her friends with customers and coworkers watching was probably a super uncomfortable moment.

Tbh I really regret having called the next guy in line up when the girlfriend walked in so that my work friend could talk to her. Probably shouldn't have left myself unable to step in and buy her some time or space cause uh... yikes.

I'm sure it was definitely transphobic (and carries specific transmisogynistic overtones) but what I'm trying to decide specifically is whether the new girlfriend is actually that ignorant or if this was some kind of deliberate fucked up move to humiliate my work friend for basically no reason.

Either way I hope she puts her foot down and just leaves this whole situation bc girl I get we're in a shitty area but there is no reason to tolerate this.

HAPPY 8TH DECEMBER to you too icey! Hope everyone's day went well. Here's to another day closer to Christmas 🎄🎁🎅🦌