Do you/have you worn a fake wedding ring to get guys to leave you alone?

[Anonymous]

I keep one in the car for when I go out and one by my door when I have workmen in. It's come in handy for both.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I wore it at job interviews and whenever I was out with friends or on planes. I’m a widow in my late 60’s and still put my ring back on to keep the old geezers away when I hike or walk in the park.

[Anonymous]

LOL, this JUST happened last week.

DH (with all our kids in tow) walked up to me while I was at a hotel bar with my coworker (work trip/we brought our families) and saw for himself that several guys were hitting on us and the entre topic was our engagement rings/the size of the diamonds.

So it never occurred to me to think a ring would make any difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did when I was younger (and obviously still single). It doesn’t work. It deters the decent guys, and does nothing to stop the advances of creeps. So you get nothing BUT creeps hitting on you, usually married ones. They’re already cheating, so they figure if they see you out somewhere in a heavily single crowd, that you’re also down for cheating too.

Now that I’m older and now solidly in the cougar column, I leave my rings off so younger guys will hit on me. Sigh… I’m gonna cry when I hit 40.

I’m 46 and get hassled as much as I did when I was half this age. I wish I could experience the invisibility everyone promised I’d suffer at 40.

[Anonymous]

One time in college, my best friend and I bought some nice fake looking wedding rings to get into a wedding expo (a ring was the only requirement to get in) because we heard from a friend working there that weekend that the swag being given away was excellent.

Does that count?

The food samples alone more than made up for the cost of the cheap rings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did when I was younger (and obviously still single). It doesn’t work. It deters the decent guys, and does nothing to stop the advances of creeps. So you get nothing BUT creeps hitting on you, usually married ones. They’re already cheating, so they figure if they see you out somewhere in a heavily single crowd, that you’re also down for cheating too.

Now that I’m older and now solidly in the cougar column, I leave my rings off so younger guys will hit on me. Sigh… I’m gonna cry when I hit 40.

I’m 46 and get hassled as much as I did when I was half this age. I wish I could experience the invisibility everyone promised I’d suffer at 40.

A lot of men will hit on any female whose hair isn’t grey and who isn’t grossly overweight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did when I was younger (and obviously still single). It doesn’t work. It deters the decent guys, and does nothing to stop the advances of creeps. So you get nothing BUT creeps hitting on you, usually married ones. They’re already cheating, so they figure if they see you out somewhere in a heavily single crowd, that you’re also down for cheating too.

Now that I’m older and now solidly in the cougar column, I leave my rings off so younger guys will hit on me. Sigh… I’m gonna cry when I hit 40.

I’m 46 and get hassled as much as I did when I was half this age. I wish I could experience the invisibility everyone promised I’d suffer at 40.

A lot of men will hit on any female whose hair isn’t grey and who isn’t grossly overweight.

Yep. Also women who get hit on a lot tend think of themselves as better looking than they really are. There was a study a few years back showing that women who are 7s or 8s get hit on much, much more frequently than 10s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys still hit on me even with the rings. Men are men. They are going to take a shot.

This. Creeps don’t care if you’re married. They just want sex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I wore it at job interviews and whenever I was out with friends or on planes. I’m a widow in my late 60’s and still put my ring back on to keep the old geezers away when I hike or walk in the park.

Same. I’m 66 and the old guys are the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a few younger guys that have a fake wedding ring they wear to bars because more women hit on them when they see the ring!!

Good lord. I'm horrified by my gender, I thought we were better than the men.

Beat me to it. The only people I’ve heard talk about wearing fake wedding rings are men, because it attracts women. I think women only want men if they think someone else wants them. It’s insecurity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I wore it at job interviews and whenever I was out with friends or on planes. I’m a widow in my late 60’s and still put my ring back on to keep the old geezers away when I hike or walk in the park.

Same. I’m 66 and the old guys are the worst.

These PPs kind of back my theory that this is a really retrograde practice. You need to be 60+ to think that the only way to get men to leave you alone is to make them think you “belong” to another man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did when I was younger (and obviously still single). It doesn’t work. It deters the decent guys, and does nothing to stop the advances of creeps. So you get nothing BUT creeps hitting on you, usually married ones. They’re already cheating, so they figure if they see you out somewhere in a heavily single crowd, that you’re also down for cheating too.

Now that I’m older and now solidly in the cougar column, I leave my rings off so younger guys will hit on me. Sigh… I’m gonna cry when I hit 40.

I’m 46 and get hassled as much as I did when I was half this age. I wish I could experience the invisibility everyone promised I’d suffer at 40.

A lot of men will hit on any female whose hair isn’t grey and who isn’t grossly overweight.

Yep. Also women who get hit on a lot tend think of themselves as better looking than they really are. There was a study a few years back showing that women who are 7s or 8s get hit on much, much more frequently than 10s.

As long as we don’t miss an opportunity to put women down. That’s what’s most important here.

[Anonymous]

I have worn one while traveling solo. Otherwise, no. It’s no deterrent and I can handle the men who need to be deterred just fine without a ring.

[Anonymous]

I did yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a few younger guys that have a fake wedding ring they wear to bars because more women hit on them when they see the ring!!

Good lord. I'm horrified by my gender, I thought we were better than the men.

Beat me to it. The only people I’ve heard talk about wearing fake wedding rings are men, because it attracts women. I think women only want men if they think someone else wants them. It’s insecurity.

It’s so sick that are gender is attracted to abs target another woman’s husband. I have heard from many newly married relatives that since they got the ring, women hit in them so hard.