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[quote=Anonymous]This OP is cracking me up with all his judgmental smugness.

I'm the PP who suggested that there was a distinction between the kind of cheapness that causes men to resent big-ticket items like engagement rings and frugality, which is a pattern of minimal spending overall. I'm glad you thought it was magical, but you actually could not have me personally pegged more wrong in the rest of your condescending post.

So while we're being judgmental and condescending, here are some questions for you.

Given that you are not interested in the traditional trappings of engagement (aka the ring), do you have similar feelings about the institution of marriage in general? Did you have a marriage ceremony? Do you wear a ring? Do you and your wife have the same last name, and if so, whose name is that? If you have children, whose last name do they have? Who is their primary caregiver?

Since you have openly stated that you enjoy making out with men at parties, why were you interested in marriage at all? What appealed to you about that institution given that it contains many WASP-ish qualities (since that's the worst thing you can come up with to say about anyone)?

Also, how did you find this site, and when did that happen? You seem to have a very skewed perception of the population that lives here, if you think that there are a lot of men of your age (which I'd assume is under 35 based on your derision towards "old" people) in marriages with queer women that also involve kissing men at parties. Some forums obviously skew one way or the other, but I would hazard a guess that outside of the political forum and the explicit forum, the majority of posters are women between 35 and 50 whose straight husbands bought them some form of engagement ring prior to proposing.[/quote]

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