Every group of girls is readying their nail polish collections and heart-shaped sugar cookies for the day celebrating the beauty of female friendships: Galentine’s Day. Whether single or taken, all women enjoy partaking in this great celebration of platonic connection.
However, third-year Rotman student Tom Dawson is a little skeptical of the enthusiasm for the occasion demonstrated by his girlfriend Savannah Reed, a third-year Women’s Studies major at Victoria College. She and her roommate/childhood best friend/study buddy/confidante Brooklyn Hayes (also a Women’s Studies major at Victoria College) have plans that make him uncomfortable.
“It just seems a little excessive,” Dawson lamented, “and she did the same thing last year, too, and the year before that. Savannah spends months preparing for ‘the most special day of love a girl can have’ and then just gets me a $10 Tim’s gift card. We’ve been together since high school.” He sighs. “Brooke already comes to most of our dates. It’s weird, I don’t know.” He made a face at our correspondent as Hayes shifted onto his girlfriend’s lap.
“I really don’t see what the big deal is,” Reed told our correspondent, touching up Hayes’s lipstick. “Brooke and I are just very close friends. Very, very close friends. Very, very, very close friends. Men are so weird about having close friendships. Hey, do you want to see our matching Swarovski rings?”
Hayes concurred with Reed, scowling at Dawson. “Leave it to a man to object to female connection and friendship. He’s so controlling, always telling her that it’s weird that we share a bed and closet and wax each other’s bikini lines and buy each other lingerie and all of that normal friend stuff. Also, he freaked out about our DIY Pap smears, saying we ‘aren’t qualified’ and ‘don’t need to use tongue’. Like, sorry, I don’t want her to get cervical cancer. As friends we need to check these things.” When asked about Galentine’s day specifically, she groaned. “It’s one day a year, and he won’t let her enjoy it. She needs to break up with him.”
Our interview was cut short when Hayes and Reed had to begin their Twilight marathon, but we here at The Boundary would like to wish everyone a happy Valentine’s Day.
PS: If your boyfriend is ugly, don’t post him to your story. Nobody wants to see that.
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