NEWS: Fake Engagement Rings Are A Girl’s Best Friend

CULTURE: Fake Engagement Rings Are A Girl’s Best Friend

by Star Padilla

Want a drastic reduction in the number of men who bug you with creepy advances? I highly suggest you invest some money in a fake engagement ring, or maybe take it to the next level and buy the double band.

I’ve had some people give me a hard time in saying, “You may possibly be cheating yourself out of finding your soulmate by wearing that ring.” In all honesty, I’m not looking to meet my Mr. Right at some random bar – that’s far from what I imagine meeting my husband will be like. And I don’t want to date a dude I meet at a bar I’m a regular at, since that’d be super inconvenient if things didn’t work out (I mean, who would get custody of the spot?)



Bear in mind, wearing a fake engagement ring doesn’t always act as a deterrent. Guys typically want women (or things for that matter) that they can’t necessarily have, so sometimes guys come on even stronger in the face of a challenge.



[Liu Suicide in Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend]

In addition, ring finger jewelry provides an easy excuse for a turn down, making it less personal and therefore less embarrassing for both parties. I consider such an accessory as a “Do Not Disturb” sign that sparkles. It’s nice to go out with friends and not worry about wannabe suitors interrupting the flow of girl talk or drunk obnoxious assholes offering to show you “what a real man is like.”

Sometimes guys will hit on you anyway, but a lot of times they will look at it and respect the rock. Having that band on your finger is like a shield that says there’s a guy behind this ring.

On the flip side, the shield works both ways. It’s nowhere near as common, but that guy twisting his wedding band around his third finger as he talks to you just might be pulling the same thing.

Well, then I'll start.
Fake ring = lying asshole. Just because you're not looking for Mr. Right, sometimes you accidentally find him. When you try the hookup and tell him you're wearing a fake ring to cockblock would be suitors, you've already shown yourself to be a lying, manipulative bitch. Either you are actually single and lying about it, or you're actually committed an cheating (open/poly relationships excluded). Bottom line - you're a liar. Way to make a first impression.

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Fuck the newswire blows.

"lying, manipulative bitch" is a bit extreme for someone who's just trying to avoid getting hit on. *shrug* i think it's a girl's right to be left alone when she wants to.

Well, this is shithouse.

In my experience, "fake" rings don't work. (I just happen to wear a ring on that finger even if it's not that kind of ring.) It gets me lines like "Baby, I'm good enough to cheat with!"

Nice goes also like to drink beers in public houses, possibly combining that activity with talking to ladies.

If you don't want a guy to bug you, just tell him so.

Here's some advice, Shorty - stop dressing like a slut if you don't want dudes hitting on you. Duh.

Is this supposed to be serious?
In my experience most men don't even do a ring check.
This is like advice from the 1950s or something.

this is a great article. A+++++++++ would read again.

It's official SG is just as shitty as everything else now. Yay!

A girl DOES have the right to be left alone, but there are more honest ways to deal with it.

This. If that doesn't work, talk to the bartender or bouncer(s) who will tell the guy to knock it off, or throw the asshole out of the bar.

Yeah, not the best sell on a fake engagement ring in my book.

You mean.... Honesty? Really? That shit works?

Well... the cases where honesty works and the cases where an engagement ring would work match up fairly closely. If you really want to put something on your fingers that will help deal with unwanted advances, my recommendation would be a good set of knuckle dusters.

And what happens when then some guy mugs you for your fake engagement ring?
Sounds like fun!

which would be any different than getting mugged for an actual engagement ring how exactly? O.o

I don't think a ring symbolize property it does indicate involvement in a relationship.

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The problem with using the ring as a deterrent is it will keep men/women who respect relationships away and the assholes who don't will not be deterred.

My two longest relationships began when I helped one who's car broke down (turned out she was satan evil sister) and the other in a gift shop (married her). If either wore a ring no relationship would have started.

Do what you wish but no works best and you control it's use.

Joking. ...Mostly.

...Sorta.

Just say no.