This idea was brought to me in conversation with one of my best good buds.
PSYCH!SENSE question...what is it with women and big engagement/wedding rings?
As I write this I hope that many of my female readers will put their opinion on here. My friend tells me that at his work place a younger woman had just gotten engaged...as she's talking about her proposal she shows the office her ring. An older woman takes a gander and is floored! her response, "Damn...I need to get a bigger one" (hmm..I feel like I should insert a joke here).
I ask my buddy about this and he tells me, "ya know...it goes back to tradition...back in the day a man went to the family's home and would give livestock in exchange for their woman's hand."
I ask one of my co-workers and she tells me, "it just goes back because we like jewelry." and I say, "that's it?" and she says, "yup.......and the bigger it is the more he loves us."
hahahah...imagine that..the bigger the ring...the more you love your woman..
so the question is...if you had the choice between a HUGE cubic zirconian (sp?) and a small diamond ring, which would you prefer?
the real one or the fake one? Her response was, "well..it depends on how fake it looks and who knows it's fake?"
PSYCH!SENSE tells me that a woman has a huge ring as like men imagine having ya know...schlongs. We have this imaginary belief that the bigger our *thang is, the more worth of a man we are. The bigger ring a woman has, the more love and better man she has.
I suppose if a woman could get a bigger ring...she would. How many of us guys, if told there was a breakthrough product...
not talking about extenze...stupid ass thing that doesn't even work..or that cream...or that suction pump thing...but it did feel good...or those collagen injection shots, at least those kinda worked but then it wasn't quite even enough and one side was droopy...I mean, come on...am I really still talking about this..)
...anyways...if a guy was given an opportunity to make himself bigger would he take it? ha! i'm sure he would.
See...men have kind of a cheating thing...we wear pants all day. By doing this we can say anything we want, buff up our shoulders, raise our chest pound on it and pronounce loudly, "I have a HUGE BEEFSTICK" and no one would know other than his partner. But women can't do this...they wear it in public all day...they can't lie about it's size.
GOing back to the question...although big rings and huge ding dongs may represent some grand gesture of being *worth more...are they really? We all know the answer to this...but few are willing to admit it...no
"it's not the size that counts..." it's the symbol of it that means more....the representtation of it. A bigger ring does not mean he loves you more or that you are worth more...a big ol' *third leg doesn't mean that you are more of a man or that you are stronger than any other man...it probably just means you have back problems. You must be willing to get over the idea of bigger size as being better...
(unless you're hung like a baby's arm holding an apple)
My opinion about rings: the jewel industry is rife with human rights abuses perpetrated in order to extract glass from the earth and then artificially limit its availability to stimulate demand and raise prices.
ReplyDeleteI understand the origins of conspicuous consumption as a means of establishing social status. I think it shows a more noble mind and stronger character in those who choose not to engage in such practices, but I'm willing to tolerate it. What I'm not willing to tolerate is the wide-spread slavery and bloodshed, as well as the economic manipulation that is at the heart of this industry of 'romance'.
I had an argument about this with a gf. we eventually broke up. despite her claims to being a person dedicated to deeper things, she insisted she needed a big diamond ring. This is a case where I'm thankful to the diamond industry. It allowed me to see early on what I might not have discovered until long after we'd tied the knot.
Thank you Daveychan for your disclosure there. it is truly hard sometimes when our personal beliefs collide with the beliefs of those we love.
ReplyDeleteYou have amazing statements and I truly enjoy reading your replies.
As an open question to the PSYCH!SENSE philosophers...are you willing to put your beliefs aside for the sake of another? perhaps that should be a blog topic.
You have to take something into consideration, as little girls we always envision having the perfect ring, the perfect wedding and the perfect man. Depending on the girl, there's always this picture that's in our heads as to how the ring of our dreams will always look like in reality. Some girls have this huge rock in their minds, while others like more simple rings. After all, it's the thought and the concept behind the ring that counts right? Unfortunately many girls would say yeah right. I honestly believe once that right person comes along, it doesn't matter how big or small the ring is because you know you're finally going to marry "the one."
ReplyDeleteso was that about a big dick or a big ring...haha u got me kinda confused lol...something tells me your coworker is one smart cookie!
ReplyDeleteand ladies like to compete with each other... who has the bigger ring means they got a man willing to spend more on them... a quantifiable way to measure who's man (or woman) loves them more.
ReplyDeletejust like the huuge and extravagant wedding some ladies "dream of" and can't live without. does it make any difference to have a small ceremony (or even just a contract signing at the courthouse) vs a big ceremony with hundreds of your closest friends and friend's of your family... if you are marrying "the one" ?
does the wedding itself matter more than the partnership they have decided to have for the rest of their lives?
(except for the 52% of couples that choose to end the contract prematurely)
@gaby: we want to perfect everything...wedding, man, etc...but once we find that "ONE" it's about the connection. It's almost fairy tale no? geez...I sometimes feel like we have lost that sense of disney movie endings...
ReplyDelete@anon: totally about schlongs and ding dongs..duh? isn't it always
@Juanton: this one was all for you buddy. it's true...
I totally agree, once we find the "one" it is about connection. A girl can easily change her mind about the size of [insert dirty joke here haha ]......
ReplyDeletethe ring, the cost of the wedding and perhaps the wedding itself if all she really wants is to be with the love of her life. If or when that happens, who says you can't have your disney movie ending? You can only hope that when you finally do find the "one," it really is going to be the right "one" and not mr./ms. "right now"
Gaby Girl...it's refresshing to hear your very nice and traditional answers. THey are a reminder that love exists and women are still out there who who this. Some act as if they do...but will often times not show it. Like in the example with Daveychan. DOn't lose that sense of romanticism that you have...it's amazing.
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