Posted on 03/07/2018 11:37:02 AM PST by C19fan
Ed Sheeran has been wearing a ring on THAT finger, but it’s not what you think it is. It’s simply a “man-gagement” ring.
People noticed the wedding band-style accessory about two weeks ago, and he has since addressed it. “I never saw why men didn’t wear engagement rings,” Sheeran, 27, told British talk show Lorraine. “Cherry made it for me herself out of silver clay,” he said of his new ring, which was handcrafted by his fiancée, Cherry Seaborn. “I really like it.”
Nothing’s changed since he proposed: “We didn’t get secretly married, no,” he clarified on Australia’s The Kyle and Jackie O Show this week. “So we were both kinda wearing rings.”
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> Does the ring go in the guys’ nose?
No, it clips into their mangina.
His wallet.
Yes. Right after he says “I do”.
It should, with a leash to be led around by.
Some 35 years ago, my wife to be asked, as was then the fashion, if it was important to me that she take my name after marriage. I conversationally asked her if it was important that we get married.
She got my drift, although I might not have insisted to the point of separation, since there were some pre-existing professional certifications involved on her part. But it was the way I felt, and she knew it. It hasn't come up since.
I can’t believe De Beers didn’t jump on this notion and market it heavily as soon as women started earning significant money in their careers.
Goes around his male parts and squeezes off the blood supply until they fall off — Eunuch! (Wasn’t using them, anyway.)
“The ring’s on my finger, not on my d___!”
A man should only propose marriage if he is financially independent/self-sufficient to the point of supporting >2 (!) people.
In doing so, he is asking her to risk complete economic dependency on him (she may have an income, but it’s not guaranteed/required). She may, during the engagement period, leave her other source(s) of income - trusting that he will indeed support her.
The engagement ring is (in my view) literally wearable wealth: enough easy-to-liquidate value to, under whatever circumstance, provide for her basic needs for about 3 months (enough time for her to acquire other income streams). Should he bail out of the engagement, she may need resources to resumer her own independence. If he can’t provide her 3 months’ wealth up front, he’s not ready to support her. That it’s pretty is just a bonus.
Having her obtain him a “man-gagement ring” dilutes this: he should not be in a position to need such portable liquid wealth (and should provide his own reserve out of prudence), the cost diminishes her financial reserves, and ignores the biological realities that _she_ is the one prone to being financially out of commission (transitioning to dependency upon his income/wealth; possible pregnancy).
Insofar as feminists may object: he’s not the one likely to get pregnant, she is - and the greatest contributor to poverty is trying to be a single mother. Having that “3 months wealth” on her finger can at least get her through the toughest financial period she could face. Yes, procreation is the primary point of marriage (not “feelings” - those exist to induce reproduction).
She doesn’t have to be financially beholden to him, but realities of human sexuality mean she’s far more likely to be than the reverse. THAT is why he gives her a pretty - and expensive - ring to clinch engagement.
Bwahahahaha!
another ‘straight women’ culture item dewomanized
Our hair has been culturally appropriated, our clothes, our breasts, our names, our legal protections. Oh, and our wombs. Now our traditions.
Just say no.
You are. Its called a wallet, or husbank. Just pre-claiming all of it.
..which means she tries *even harder* to hit on your because you are wearing some other woman's "seal of approval".
I’ll look for Ed Sheeran sitting in the passenger seat of his wife’s minivan with the kids in the back.
Why is it that men seem so willing to surrender their man card? Do these men really enjoy being a sissy? Are all American women now eager to be the husband?
This is something so stupidly absurd only feminism could have thought it up
‘I had a problem with so many hot looking young chicks hitting on me.’
so did I...had to beat ‘em off with sticks...
I was thinking that De Beers had to be behind this promotion.
Just try and give a homemade clay engagement ring to a woman and see what happens.
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