The underlying reason that so many are against it isn't really the bleeding africans; it is the underlying sexist tones of "The man will provide" "The man must

The underlying reason that so many are against it isn't really the bleeding africans; it is the underlying sexist tones of "The man will provide" "The man must do something that goes against his rationality to make the woman happy" "It shouldn't matter to the man that De Beers is manipulating the market, the man will provide" "It should not matter that synthetic diamonds that are not noticeably different to the naked eye can be made for a tenth of the price" The real reason isn't the blood diamond aspect. It is the male equivalent of "get in the kitchen and bake me a pie", except social expectation is for men to do the things that are expected of them, regardless of the inherit fairness or rationality.