I don't know about anyone else but I can usually tell when a man is 'iffy'. When I was a little girl, I knew there was something weird and not good about my piano teacher. Years later he went to prison for paedophilia. He liked little boys so I was always safe but I still picked up on the creepiness. And I was about 10 at the time.
Years ago I was at a party for a friends birthday. It was held in the garden because it was a beautiful day and a very pretty garden. I noticed a man who arrived after most of us. I didn't know him but there was decidedly something very creepy going on. Made my skin crawl. About 10 minutes later I went into the kitchen to find my friend in floods of tears. The man hadn't been invited but someone in the pub said 'Hey, come along with us'. He was a well known paedophile in the area and he spent all the time there watching her young son and his friends. I think her partner went out and told him to
duck off because he wasn't there long.
Sorry, waffling here. Can't think of anything to say about ...yawn.
its a gold bangle... thats all... nothing to read in to it ... its not racist/chattel its not woke or anything else ... its just gold jewellery.... I wear tit loads of gold bangles bracelets (yes there is a difference..lol) necklaces .. and a lot of diamonds and other gemstones...you name it and I have it... I even have the Cartier panther pendant and I belong to no one... lol I just work with gold jewellery.... and buy what ever I like....lol I don't particularly like the Cartier love bangle but only because I don't like the style of it...we have one at work if I want it but I prefer oval bangles not round..
That's the joy of semiotics
What means nothing to you, may well mean a lot more to someone else and you can see that in the ways people respond to 'signifiers'.
If we take the Union Jack as the 'signifier' and it's waved about at the Last Night Of the Proms. It's being waved because whoever's waving it is proud to be British. But someone else may see the waving of the flag as offensive. So the message put out by the sender, isn't necessarily the message received by whoever views the sign despite the 'signifier' remaining the same.
It's actually a really interesting subject to study