Gender traits

Couldn't give a fabulous flying smeg about it...

Do you get those women with a finger full of rings? You know - the engagement ring, the wedding ring, the eternity ring, the son of eternity ring, the eternity meets Godzilla ring.....and so on....

Not crazy about any jewelry...safer in some sections of the city not to be wearing any anyway..:-)

I wonder sometimes if it's a ploy never to do any manual work!!!

Intrigued - as a man, the only jewellery I wear is a watch and (on appropriate shirts) cuff-links.

KP

*LMAO*

No, I don't understand that one. It's like some sort of prize thing it seems to me. You know the "keeping up with the Joneses" kind of thing, where one woman has to top another. That's something else I stay away from too...competetive women around men. It's just not a game I'm going to play. I've even seen it from a good friend of mine that I thought shared my sentiments about this sort of thing! It was a few years back...a guy I used to work with moved to town...he's cute, although I'd always just viewed him as a co-worker ...anyhow, he ends up working for the same company as aforementioned friend. She really had the hots for him. One day we were both in his company and I couldn't believe how she was behaving! It wasn't overtly competitive...not like some women I've seen....but there was no mistaking she was makin' a claim! *L* As I said, I hadn't thought of him in a romantic sense until he took me to lunch shortly after moving here and made some rather flirtatious comments...saying to me "you look good"....then a BIG pause....then "REALLY good". Well what do I say to that? Uh gee thanks. No wonder I'm single! *LOL*

I knew you wuz a woman willow_tl!

kitchenpete: I wouldn't even wear a watch if I didn't find it so damned convenient to know the time.

I used to have two rings. My class ring, and another ring I picked up somewhere. Also had my ear pierced. Just the left one.

Now I just wear my wedding band, but if I had an earring I would probably wear that.

My wife has her ears pierced but doesn't wear earrings. She would wear toe rings, anklets, neaklaces if she liked that particular one, but usually it's just her wedding band.

I love earrings - and stuff like amber chunky necklaces and stuff like that.....more exotic than anything - love big scarves draped around me for the same reason.

Diamonds and such? Not my taste....I like the odd sparkly thing - but I am as happy with shiny glass. I just don't get the POINT of expensive jewellery - but I don't get the point of expensive cars, either. Or any other "trophy" things...

Those horrible long nails, too - speaking of ploys not to do manual work - or, as the Chinese wore them, as proof that you didn't have to... I hope I am not offending anyone here, but I really hate those long nails - and fake ones...ewwwww.....

I once saw a woman with fingernails so long, the first thought that occurred to me was to wonder how she could care for her children (she was surrounded by three or four at a store check-out counter). Those nails were easily four inches or more beyond the ends of her fingers.

I personally will not wear any jewelry, and carry a pocket watch because i simply cannot stand to have anything so closely "attached" to my person. I make a single exception--i wear a ring which my sweetiepie gave me.

I have a pair of medium sized gold hoops that I keep in my ears most of the time. If I don't, the piercing would probably close. I have had to have my ears pierced 4 times already. I haave other earrings, but if I wear them 4-5 times a year, that's a lot.

I wear an engagement ring, and a thin gold wedding band. I have this silver lavaliere that I bought in Greenwich Village 30 years ago for $16. I wear it with just about everything. It looks like something that would make Rorschach proud. People always remark about it, and no one can figure out what it is.

I have other jewelry, but I seldom wear it.

Do men like those damned nails? I assume they are worn because they are deemed attractive to the opposite sex?

I'd suggest simple personal vanity--or deviant pathology. I've never seen such a grotesque display, and i can't imagine any scenario in which it would have made her attractive--my response was that it was repulsive

Not my cup of tea!

dlowan- As I remember, polished nails originally were worn years ago as a sign of high rank. The implication was that the woman did not do manual labor or housework, that would render the manicure impractical.
It also demonstrated that her husband could afford to buy manicures for his wife, and is quite similar in motivation as jewelry used as status symbols.

I am really surprised that women, post-feminism, are still so involved in having long, painted nails. Last time that I had a manicure was in 1959!

I was utterly overcome with the sight of a woman with those the other day....as was my colleague...

She was the boss of a child welfare office - and we were engaged in playing hardball with her over a case where they wanted us to to do therapy with a kid where it was totally inappropriate - but they hoped it would get a very difficult mother out of their hair, and into ours. She is powerful and destructive - and quite personality disordered, this woman.

She has THE NAILS - with little sparklies embedded in the lacquer - very red - and a mouth to match. She was doing all the dramatic finger movements that people with THE NAILS tend to do - we were like snakes hypnotized.

Thing is, if ever my nails survive life sufficiently to peek their wittle heads over the tops of my fingers, I start to do the movements, too! I have noticed Goth guys, with long black nails, doing it too...very odd - seems to be in the genes - but how did it get there?

I like short red nails - and painted toe nails, oddly. My life is quite unconducive to their maintenance though.

Heehee - all this talk of nails has made me want to paint the cats' claws red.....they'd look cute with the sparklies, too....

Although the example to which i referred was extreme, and as i've said, struck me as grotesque, in think in the more common less extreme examples of long nails, its simply an adolescent sort of "look at me" thing.