> I just don't get it. Who cares what the source of a diamond is? Women's cultural conditioning and arguably human nature. It being a completely unnecessary bu

> I just don't get it. Who cares what the source of a diamond is? Women's cultural conditioning and arguably human nature. It being a completely unnecessary but very costly sacrifice to the man is the feature, not a bug. It doesn't need to have intrinsic value, all that matters is that it is an accurate signal of excess wealth. There are those (like you and your wife) who see past this, which is great, and I hope this trend continues. I don't know why the equality crowd isn't vehemently against a high and essential cost from one gender to another, nearly unilaterally. (Well, cynically they like it because it affects mostly men, and indeed works as an accurate signal of affluence.) But it would be great, for causes like income equality and the wage gap, if this could be turned symbolic, instead of an actual costly sacrifice which is entirely a burden on men.