what makes someone have 'woman hands' or 'man hands'? I heard this thing about if your hand takes up your entire face, it's manly, but is that really true? My hand is bigger than my face, but I don't think I really have manly hands unfortunately lol I still don't really know how to tell if you have manly or feminine hands.

Edit: I have man hands apparently =) except they aren't hairy

I'm not completely sure, put I think they have proportionally wider hands (or maybe just larger in general), and definitely have longer fingers.... yeah, i think their hands tend to be larger overall.  I've done a number of hand comparisons with guy friends and their fingers are always a bit longer, and hands are wider than mine.  (My fingers are on the longer end too).

I feel like no hand can be particular in appearing male or female. Sure structure wise there's probably difference, but just based on appearence, it can vary. Some guys have pretty hands and some girls have manly looking hands. Mine vary from sometimes looking manly to being pretty ambiguous. Never girly. And I'm sure the activities in your day to day that could help mold that appearence. Like if you work with your hands all day, you're gonna have rougher hands than somone who sits at a desk all day.

Idk...that's my .02

"womans hands"  as defined by this:
http://www.bigmustard.co.uk/files/image/madeleine-jones-hands-1-2en0.jpg
'man hands' as defined by this:
http://www.bigmustard.co.uk/files/image/chris-poole-hands-web-1-2en0.jpg

It seems that women have narrower palms, making the hands themselves look longer and thinner.

i have regular to larger hands for a girl my height but people seeing me as a guy always point out my soft and tiny "baby hands"....on the other hand most of my boyfriends had hands not much larger than mine...but with a lot more veins and generally not looking as "gracefully built" i have a scar on my right hand, and i feel like that hand looks so much more masculine

I think that although men have bigger hands in general, women tend to have longer fingers in proportion to their palm, although that doesn't seem like the consensus around here.

It's exactly what the pictures show.  But there is a high doubt factor for photography round these parts.

I think a lot of it has to do with the skin texture and digit ratios.

I have horrendously small hands, terrible as i am a musician. They are my best asset but i really wish they were bigger D:

The biggest difference i seem to notice personally, is guys tend to have more veiny hands i.e. they poke out more than women's do, plus rougher and thicker/ more muscle, not necessarily longer. And tend to be clammy!

On a side note, i wear a ring on each finger, started as one then... i just got more... They're all pretty hench imo, kind of metaller or what have you, nothing dainty. I mean i generally look like that - wrist bands and stuff, but since coming out as FTM some people have said they think i should take them off because it's 'not manly' or something. I;m never going to take them off, because its like part of me (plus they are useful for many things other than wearing, i know that sounds odd and i don't mean it in a kinky way rofl), but what do yall think? personally i have never see women wear many rings and usually more dainty (mine are all more than 1cm thick and silver), and more often see blokes wear tonnes of kickass blingage.

On average,
Man: rough, rigid, prominent knuckles, veiny, boney, long fingers, hairy
Woman: soft, no knuckles, chubby, hairless, small

Because most guys have less body fat compared to girls, their bones are more defined as well as their muscles.

They are also much more likely over time to have to really work with their hands, that makes no small difference either.

Men have hairier palms.

Quote from: glendagladwitch on July 14, 2010, 08:23:03 PM
Men have hairier palms.

Lol.

And man hands are bigger (especially thicker) and the bony prominences seem, well, more prominent lol. Fingernails are tougher too, but most aren't likely to pay that much attention.

to me manly hands are longer wider and thicker. womanly hands are small and dainty. But it's different. Rihanna has huge ass hands.

I was always told I had big hands "for a girl", so i just assumed boys had larger hands in general.

Usually men hands are indeed bigger (longer+wider), hairy, and shows more veins and muscles, knuckles might show too.

Additionally: longer ring ring finger compared to index finger by quite a bit.

All of the above is MOSTLY and is VERY USUALLY there but... not always at all! (except for hairy maybe )

Things which change on hormones (all change both ways): Hairy, veins and muscles.. knuckles could show more because of muscles increasing and body fat decreasing but.. most men don't have it anyways.

Things which don't change are done before birth: Digit ratio (but it also overlaps as we saw in another thread already, so it seems to be correct about 90% the time, maybe less)

Things which will change if done before growth is sealed: Hands size overall, which again, people are sometimes lucky as we seen in other threads.

These are the sums of differences taking the monkey as the subject, to get the female just reverse from the monke..umm..man.

Edit: Even after growth size can change but rarely more than a cm (half inch) due to the tendons and muscles changing.

They seem to. I've seen and heard people comment on how big a girls hands or how small a boys hands are but never the other way really. But either way I don't think it's something that people will see and be like omg trans!

Quote from: andthenwekisss on July 15, 2010, 04:16:39 AM
They seem to. I've seen and heard people comment on how big a girls hands or how small a boys hands are but never the other way really. But either way I don't think it's something that people will see and be like omg trans!

I doubt you need to worry, starting at 19 you might still have normal sized girls hands I know I did and therefore still do. Many girls have much bigger hands than mine.

Quote from: Myself on July 15, 2010, 04:22:49 AM
I doubt you need to worry, starting at 19 you might still have normal sized girls hands I know I did and therefore still do. Many girls have much bigger hands than mine.

Nah I'm not worried about my hands. They are pretty small, as a boy I thought they were too small haha. I got my moms small thick stubby hands =/ But I like them now. As much as I would like my own hands I suppose haha

I've always been told I have long fingers. I do. And bony hands and knuckles and veiny arms and hands. It always made me happy that they weren't tiny. My hands are larger than most girls I compare with and about the same if not larger than other guys.