Article on Diamonds.

I realize the logic of your opinion, but I still would be divinely happy if a man ever placed a nice rock on my finger and asked me to marry him. Forgive me for being a girl?

I wouldn’t consider it paying for a wife, I just think that it means something if a guy cares enough about me to lay down two months’ salary for a ring and propose. I think it’s terribly romantic, and as it’s never happened to me, I’d be very excited. I freely admit that I hold onto old-fashioned ideas without regards to where they came from or how they were formed.

*Shrug* I guess we’ll never get married then, TImmy. Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam. And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva… *giggles*

Sure. It’s a cultural construct. You can’t toss all of them out.

diamonds are still a beautiful stone, whether natural or man made. What’s so bad about them is the way we inflate their value.

I love my rock. It was the only time that I ever let my Tim spend that much money on me, and like every single other thing, I don’t really give a fck what anyone thinks about it. There are so many other things to get upset about it in the world, this is just one.

are you saying you’re not gonna get me a ring when you propose? 😛

I won’t buy diamonds since I’ve learned the truth about them, about a year ago or so. Most importantly for me, the fact that slave labor is used and people are exploited to mine them. It’s not worth it for me to have a shiny bauble at the expense of someone else’s life, you know? I do have a diamond engagement ring that my husband bought me before I knew any of this stuff, but we won’t be purchasing anymore natural diamonds in the future.

I learned a couple years ago how fake the diamond trade is. A stone that costs thousands of dollars here is practically worthless where it came from. It’s a false economy. I have no desire to get a diamond ring. Give me rubies or give me cash, I say.

You ever see that MasterCard commercial? I think it’s MC. Anyway, it’s one of the “Priceless” ones…and it starts out by saying, “Engagement ring. $9000.” I don’t have a problem with diamonds, per se, it’s the custom and blah blah blah. It’s what some people want and if their partner is willing to buy it and that makes them happy, then great, none of my business. (Though I’d choose an aquamarine over a diamond any day.) In a sort of primeval way, it’s saying “pick me, look what I can provide for you.” But $9000? On a ring? Ridiculous. If you’re going to spend $9000 on anything as a pledge of your love, it might as well be something useful, like a car or a down payment on a house or something. It makes my stomach turn. People forget it’s the love, not the object and especially not the pricetag, that’s important.

hah down payment on marriage. ouch

amen sister!!! I read a book about 5 years ago on the diamond dynasty family (or something) and boy did it enlighten me to this diamond scam that we’ve been brain washed about. so much so that I was insistent on not even having a diamond in my engagement ring, until my mother contributed her old engagement diamond ring and I decided to use it for sentimental reasons only (something borrowed). Otherwise I was totally going to reject and rebel against this false notion of the necessity of a diamond for engagement.

i have always thought they were overpriced pieces of blah. i prefer sapphires which are rather cheap and beautiful.

I wonder if Honeycat called you a “sister” on purpose. Heh heh. Personally, I think diamonds are pretty, but I h8 all the commercialism that goes with them: “Buy your girlfriend a diamond to prove that you really love her! If you’re a real man, you’ll throw down a thousand bones on a piece of jewelry RIGHT NOW!” There’s a great Bloom County comic in which Opus goes to buy his fiancean engagement ring, and there are signs all over the jewelry store saying things like, “A woman without diamonds is like a day without pudding,” or “A woman without dimaonds is gross buckets.” Hehehe.

I belive I’m in the minority here… I have never ever. Ever. Cared about diamonds. I’m more of a beads person