Girls: If you could have any Engagement Ring you wanted..

[Tartarus Sauce]

My future fiancee better not ask for a diamond ring. Diamonds are the biggest fucking con on the market. If it weren't for the bloody De Beers cartel, all those diamonds would be next to worthless. Easily the most overrated of all the gemstones; they don't even have a natural color for fuck's sake! Rubies, sapphires, and emeralds will kick a diamond's ass any day of the week.

I agree with you re the De Beers cartel and that the market is heavily controlled to make them "valuable." But you are wrong that diamonds don't have a natural color. The most valuable ones are blue and pink, and they also occur naturally in every other color of the rainbow. Least valuable are yellow. I've seen a green one that was breathtaking.

Well then I take it back, but they aren't marketed that way. The stereotypically perpetuated and fetishized image is that of a perfectly reflective, transparent, bland diamond. If there was more of a push on marketing their colored variants, I could get more on board with it.

Just saying, I don't remember the last time I saw a colored diamond in an advertisement.