If William decides to be a cad, a wedding ring won’t stop him. As someone in the article above said, it’s not as though we, and he, don’t know he is married. Everyone picks their own symbols. Some Christians wear crosses, some don’t. Some of us wear rings, some of us don’t. I wonder sometimes if it isn’t less about feminism or cultural norms or commentary than it is about how comfortable people really are about letting people make their own choices. We like people to do what we do, I suspect, because it reinforces us on some level. It reassures us that we are “right”. If people do things or say things or believe things that are different (especially if they are happy or successful in their lives), that might mean that we are (gasp) wrong – or that there might be more than one true path (mine, of course). That can be threatening to many.
sniff….sniff… is someone burning a Koran… or a flag…. or a cross…?
