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Originally Posted by cyrnel
Modesty is healthy.
Ustwo, do we get a follow-up? I think we all acknowledge jewels as a material obsession and marketing as manipulative, so are you just taking in too much television these holidays?
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I've always had a bit of an annoyance with the 'attractive' factor on TV, but especially diamond adds, where the very attractive women (of early to late middle age as young people can't afford diamonds so they don't get advertized to) can't see how much they love their husband until he gives her the shiny bauble.
Add to it that it’s a commodity of monopolized scarcity and it makes me want to spit.
The message of course being ‘if he loves you, he will buy you a diamond’. The commercial that made me go over the edge is the current on going one where the guy is going to miss christmas with his woman because there are no airline flights, somehow gets there riding a snowplow, she comes out looking all confused and then its all so clear when he gives her the diamond necklace, where she melts with adoring eyes. Him being there just confused her, but he brought diamonds, NOW it all makes sense!
Just a note for the young men out there, if you ever are with a girl who isn’t happy to see you unless you bring gifts, find another woman.