06.12.07
LINKSPAM: Engagement Rings
This is extremely interesting.
A little background for why this intrigues me. I actually had no idea that guys didn’t wear engagement rings until at most four years ago and more likely somewhere around two years ago. And when I found out, I was appalled. There is, to my mind, one and only one reason for a woman to wear the ring and not the guy. It marks her as off limits. Apparently, guys are free until the marriage actually occurs. Guess that explains the bachelor party idea.
Anyway, I never did like the idea of the engagement ring much, and after I found out that it was women only I figured that I would just insist on one too, if the person I was getting married too was insisting on one. After reading this article? Probably just do away with the bloody thing would be my vote, although if that’s not an option because of protests from my as-yet-imaginary significant other then I’ll at least press for non diamond bearing rings. Yet another aspect of main stream culture that turns out to be the devil spawn of someone’s advertising campaign. Sigh.
qkslvrwolf said,
June 15, 2007 at 2:52 pm
I’m testing a new plugin.
qkslvrwolf said,
June 15, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Test again