Are left hand ring finger rings a for sure sign of being in a relationship?
I am clueless and could never tell you which fingers mean something. Luckily I don’t really wear jewellery much, but unless I checked with someone else I could quite easily have a ring on my wedding finger, and it wouldn’t mean anything. I also have several friends who wear rings on their wedding finger because it’s the most comfortable place to wear one (maybe that’s why it was picked for wedding rings?).
Tofu taco time? My point is that rings have much symoblism. They don’t just indicate “I’m married” or “I’m engaged”; there are centuries of meaning in them, good and bad. For women, especially, there are undertones of sexual possession and of material dependence, among other things. Of course there are good connotations as well, but I feel you can’t assume all people are embracing one level of the symbolism (married/not-married) but ignoring all other levels of the symbolism. It’s hardly inconcievable that a woman would be wearing a ring, or not wearing a ring, in a way that doesn’t conform to the “standard cultural norms” you (or anyone else) might be living by, given how charged the symbolism is. And writing off those choices as somehow deluded or ignorant or whatever seems really regressive to me.
