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No Zucker

A post at Good Men Project discussing, for starters, a piece titled “Your Hubby Zucks” at the New York Post by Rita Delfiner who writes:

It looked as if Mrs. Mark Zuckerberg had won the lottery when she married the Facebook boss last weekend — but now she appears to be the unluckiest lucky woman alive.

What’s Zuck’s crime?  Despite being a billionaire, he only spent an estimated $25,000 on his wife’s ruby wedding ring. TMZ made a point of highlighting how SIMPLE the ring was.  We can assume that there are other deranged lunatics on the internet who think that Zuckerberg is a cheapskate. The charge that Zuckerberg is cheap has been walked back a little after someone pointed out that red rubies fit Zuckerberg’s wife’s Asian ethnicity.  But the pro-ring lobby showed their true colors.  If Zuckerberg had absconded from his duty to spend x% of his earnings on a ring he would have deserved our collective shame.

All of this makes me wonder, how much do women want the man and how much do they want the ring?

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14 Responses to No Zucker

  1. donkeyrock 05/26/2012 at 3:42 pm

    It’s not the ring, it’s the status the ring proves to others.

  2. Odds 05/26/2012 at 3:43 pm

    Women want control over men’s wealth.

  3. Gorbachev 05/26/2012 at 4:01 pm

    To ask is to answer.

  4. ADS 05/26/2012 at 4:12 pm

    Shows good character on the part of mrs. Zuckerberg. Though she likely wouldn’t have been in a position to become mrs. Zuckerberg if she had been the unpleasant demanding type that makes a big deal about the wedding ring.

  5. doug1111 05/26/2012 at 5:05 pm

    Yeah, repulsive.

    I will note though that Zuckerberg probably not unintentionally waited to marry until it could be safely argued that the IPO valuation of his net worth was already baked into his prior to marital property net worth under California law. Good for him. In his case that functions as a damn good prenup, but better since unbreakable. However bad California is on alimony in “long” marriage and child support=also stealth alimony assessed on a formula basis on very high earners and too much assessed on the truly rich, it’s bright line about non marital versus marital property.

    His wife will have no claim to half of his last week net worth in the event of a divorce. Which I’d guess is pretty unlikely with those two anyway.

  6. nick digger 05/26/2012 at 6:04 pm

    Call the ADL!! They called him “cheap”!

  7. Vicomte 05/26/2012 at 6:09 pm

    He made her feel special with a unique ring, rather than a (relatively, or him) pricey one.

    Girl can’t complain.

  8. jz 05/26/2012 at 6:29 pm

    The ruby shows good taste, which is priceless.

    As long as this couple lives, they will be hounded by envious busybodies.

  9. doug1111 05/26/2012 at 6:37 pm

    Yeah I think diamonds are not that attractive and a sucker’s game. The markups from the de Beers cartel, and their orthodox Jew wholesale diamond cutters and middlemen, are extreme.

    Rubies are much more inherently attractive stones, as are sapphires. I bought my ex wife one or the other, can’t honestly remember. It was a while ago. It was a black one, with a small diamonds encircling it. Not hugely expensive, not cheap either, but very grand looking, and very individual looking. Basically it was more impressive than it’s price, which her acquaintances and girlfriends found very hard to guesstimate.

  10. Vicomte 05/26/2012 at 6:57 pm

    Diamonds really are boring gemstones. I’d take a quality opal any day.

  11. Senior Manchild 05/27/2012 at 9:57 am

    It´s good that someone in the extended manosphere is covering Zucks matrimony. Almost everything from other sources has Zuckerberg as Mr. Priscilla Chan. Maybe Heartiste will have some thoughts about all this; I personally have been scratching my damn head over it all. I am too imprinted upon by realities such as this:

    http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/threatpoint/

    Good luck Mark.

  12. Kai 05/27/2012 at 10:00 am

    My understanding is that the presence of any stones in wedding rings, as opposed to engagement rings, is considered vulgar.

  13. fozzy 05/27/2012 at 6:13 pm

    I wonder if anyone asked Mrs. Zuckerberg’s opinion about the ring. I could have easily spent 10X what I did for an engagement ring but my wife doesn’t like any jewelery apart from the “taken” rings and she wanted something small that doesn’t interfere with her working. Zuck’s wife is a computer nerd like him isn’t she? Maybe she asked for something small and tasteful and weirdo celebrity ‘reporters’ are assuming something they have no idea about.

  14. brcksamson 05/27/2012 at 6:21 pm

    My mistake, I just looked it up and she’s a doctor. Gigantic ring and putting on rubber gloves / handwashing don’t mix.

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