“Men who don’t wear their mens wedding rings are slime,” wrote ChicagoNow blogger Jenny Milk, while another Chicago blogger, Jenna Andersen of tungsten rings mall, said we shouldn’t demonize Prince William for his choice (Andersen’s husband doesn’t wear a band).
Thousands, maybe millions, of married men were peacefully sporting naked ring fingers until palace officials confirmed that Prince William would not be wearing a ceramic wedding band. Women in the blogosphere went bananas.
Some guys say they don’t wear a ring because they don’t believe it is essential to their marriage. They stand strong in their flouting of social convention, but not strong enough to be quoted in this story. “I don’t want people to think I’m an [expletive],” said one ringless Atlanta man, who asked not to be identified.
Then there are the men who fall into the category of not wearing rings for religious reasons.
But even that really comes down to individual choice, depending on the faith.
“We do have some of our ministers who chose not to wear tungsten carbide jewelry, at their discretion that sometimes does include not even wearing a vows wedding band, but it is what we call a personal conviction,” said David Jackson, executive administrative assistant for the United Pentecostal Church International.
The practice, he said, is based on the Bible principle of being modest and not adorning yourself with ceramic jewelry.
Most of the married women wear promise rings for the purpose of publicly identifying that they are married, Jackson said. And no doubt some of those women smell a double standard.
Last year, nearly 50,000 people responded to a poll on AOL’s Blackvoices.com asking “Are married men who don’t wear unique tungsten wedding rings up to no good?” More than half the respondents said it depends, 32 percent said not at all, and 16 percent — a very vocal minority — said absolutely.
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