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There's a billboard advertising for a local jeweler outside of town right now that says something about pretty shiny things "for girls", with a grown woman wearing jewelry next to the print. Personally, I find the connotation that only girls are attracted to shiny, pretty things sexist, and I don't like that they refer to grown women as "girls." There are similar issues present in other jewelry advertising that I find bothersome.
I'm immune to jewelry commercials. I like shiny pretty things, yes, and I like diamonds, but they're just too fraught with problems for me to desire one. If my SO someday masters his chemical vapor deposition skills and grows me one in a lab, that would make me happy, but the current human cost of a diamond is too much. That, and I would generally prefer that the money spent on such a thing be spent on something more practical--like a down payment on a house. I feel that way about any such extravagant purchase at this point in our lives--there are much better things to save for.
This isn't to say I haven't owned diamonds--I once had a pair of diamond earrings. I still have one of the earrings. They're impossibly tiny (like diamond pinpoints, seriously), hence why I lost one, and they were a hand-me-down from my mother. I've also borrowed some of her diamond jewelry for special occasions, like my graduation dinner.
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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