Okay, I know I’m cynical, but I just can’t stomach the “Women of the world, raise your right hand” malarkey. For one thing - how many cultures ‘of the world’ wear the wedding ring on the right hand? For another - why the heck do we need a group of ad-men to tell us to buy ourselves diamonds? Hey mister - I don’t need YOUR permission!

I personally love diamonds, and I love to buy them for myself. For any body part. I’ve been doing it for years. I think our twisted culture of buying ourselves all the pocketbooks and shoes we want, all the costume crap we need to finish off our fashion looks, but ‘waiting’ for a man (or some other benevolent partner) to buy us the real deal, is, to say the least, flawed.

I’m willing to spend a little more for a ‘Kimberley Process’ diamond, but I’m not willing to wait. I’m not willing to have Miss Manners tell me who can buy me what, or, worse, what I can buy for me. No. Not at all.

So you mad, mad ad men and you antiquated, etiquette experts - go to hell. We will buy what we want, for any hand we want. Our left hand can rock the world AND the cradle. Our right hand can rule the world OR put on makeup. Stop trying to manipulate us.

And I’ll stop letting you get to me. My bad.

Tags: buy ourselves diamonds, etiquette expert, Kimberley Process, love diamonds, wedding ring

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