Not that anybody asked, but:
The thing that ticks me off the most about my closest friends from highschool being my bridesmaids at my wedding then two weeks later each separately messaging me (but at the same time so I had to reply to them both separately about the same topic) to basically without saying it "you can't sit with us anymore" is because of their loyalty to the mentally 🏳️⚧️ ill 🏳️⚧️ gender 🏳️⚧️ fandom.
When all the nonbinary Tumblr terms started making it out into the real world, I never once pretended I was onboard, and genuinely though we had the kind of relationship with a silent understanding, like, I'd never ever drag them on their posts supporting it, nor did either one of them ever bash one of my articles against it.
Before i got married, i learned at one's baby shower/gender reveal that the other friend's bf was now "Vanessa" and promptly shut my yap because that's not the time or place to really get into it, but i still reeeeally wish I'd looked into her eyes and been like, "You can talk to me about this any time, you know if my phone rings I'll pick it up, you have me in your corner to defend you no matter what," but instead I super awkwardly said I hope the medical insurance & paperwork was handled well. *sighs in self-disgust*.
Then, nothing but radio silence for two years while I moved away & started my own family- and invited them to my baby shower. The one who was totally fine inviting me to hers showed up to my baby shower literally with a stone-cold expression just to say, "I think you know why, but, I'm not staying. But motherhood is hard, so if you need to, you can still call." and immediately spun on her heel and left.
THERE ARE SO MANY LEGIT REASONS TO NOT LIKE ME. like.....sooooo many. Things I've genuinely done & said that EITHER of them could TOTALLY resent me for PERSONALLY (which i admit, WANT to apologize for whether they remember it or not & wish i could take-back or re-do with the hindsight i have now).
It feels like total horse-shit when there are things about ME that were/are serious impediments to close friendship with two women i knew for so long- and all of that was met with radical acceptance & understanding afaik. I watched alongside them as girls when they got mistreated and misrepresented in male-dominated areas, now siding with the exact lists of sexist stereotypes we all 3 once fought so hard against! To be seen as people instead of "just girls"!