So, in my adventures through the interwebs last week, I stumbled upon this article on Refinery 29…
This article, The Infuriating Reason a lot of Women Wear Fake Engagement Rings at Work, spoke about the really sad (and creepy) fact that many women in the service, retail, and hotel industries wear fake engagement rings to avoid being hit on by older and/or predatory men.
To be perfectly honest, I had never heard of this phenomenon. But this trend has become so big that jewelry giants like Kay and Jared actually carry lines of fake rings.
As a designer whose whole credo is about creating rings that celebrate the love between two people and the life that they want to share with each other, I am so saddened by this trend… and the fact that women feel the need to wear engagement rings as some sort of armor rather than as a celebration.
From one Woman Warrior to another Woman Warrior, if you are one of these women who wear a fake ring to feel safe, I’m sorry that you need to go through that to feel at home in your own life. But I’m glad that you are protecting yourself.
Here’s hoping that one day the world will be different.
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If you want to join the dialogue, here’s the facebook post that started the whole discussion and inspired the article on Refinery 29.