Quote from: zombiesarepeaceful on July 15, 2010, 12:01:31 PM
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.

Sounds very hot!

I have small hands, but I'm short and stuff so it makes sense.  However, despite being small, I don't think they look girly.  They've got sticky out veins, are crinkled and rough and I've got big knuckles.  I used to do piano and show off to my teacher how my fingers were double jointed and she'd tell me not to click them around or I would get manly knuckles.  Seems like she was right!  I've been pretty rough with my hands.

I have tiny hands but they're male shaped: comparatively wide palm and short blunt fingers. I had more than one person tell me I have "man hands" and be completely shocked when I held mine up to theirs and showed how tiny they really are.

It also helps (or doesn't, depending on which way I'm presenting) that I have rough skin, blunted fingertips, calluses and scars because I spent the better part of a decade working with my hands. And I just generally have big protruding veins. Al of those are big "male hands" signifiers.

You can always try the "OJ" test.
Go to a shop and try on boy gloves and girl gloves. Ok doesn't mean much but it doesn't mean much anyway. BTW I wear girl gloves 'cos boy gloves are too big. And how do you tell the sex of a pair of gloves - leave it with you.


Cindy

Quote from: zombiesarepeaceful on July 15, 2010, 12:01:31 PM

hands on MtFs like me are a dead giveaway and we wish we could have slim pretty ones. 
What makes mine worse is that some days for on reason at all and despite me using lots of moisturiser they do look dry skinned...I can minimise mine in summer by wearing short sleeve tops and a slim bracelet...while in winter thick jackets can minimise them a bit too...but I'm always conscious of them being male.

Quote from: CindyJames on July 16, 2010, 04:43:03 AM
You can always try the "OJ" test.
Go to a shop and try on boy gloves and girl gloves. Ok doesn't mean much but it doesn't mean much anyway. BTW I wear girl gloves 'cos boy gloves are too big. And how do you tell the sex of a pair of gloves - leave it with you.


Cindy

That one doesn't work for me - neither one fits The women's gloves have fingers almost half an inch too long, and the men's gloves...well, I can fit my entire hand in the palm area almost. I wear children's. Apparently my hands are perfectly normal for a 13-year-old boy...just like my feet...and my shoulders and arms...and everything but my butt

"man hands" are bigger than woman's hands. very prominent knuckles, veiny, big fingers, and thicker. my dad has very manly hands.

Quote from: lilacwoman on July 16, 2010, 05:06:48 AM
hands on MtFs like me are a dead giveaway and we wish we could have slim pretty ones. 
What makes mine worse is that some days for on reason at all and despite me using lots of moisturiser they do look dry skinned...I can minimise mine in summer by wearing short sleeve tops and a slim bracelet...while in winter thick jackets can minimise them a bit too...but I'm always conscious of them being male.

I don't think they are dead giveaways. I'm mtf and my hands are almost identical to my moms. She has wide hands and feet and I got her feet too lol. Only thing different is she has one of those toe thumbs. I don't though lol

no one is going to look at your thumbs when you have a pretty face like that! 

How old are you Kyril?

Quote from: ZomZom on July 16, 2010, 03:16:00 PM
How old are you Kyril?

27.

Quote from: kyril on July 16, 2010, 07:06:47 PM
27.

oh wow you look younger than that

Quote from: perlita85 on July 16, 2010, 08:46:17 PM
I stand corected; will dig out the paper tomorrow

I already wrote about digit ratio in this post.. females index is longer/same/sometimes-tiny-bit-shorter, male ring is simply significantly longer.

So in females: about 1. in males: less than 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio

Some of the most fem GG's I know have clasicly male hands and the reverse can be said of some natal males.
Same with feet, shoulders and hips.

I don't know about the hands but fingerwise, I heard once that if the ring finger is longer than the index, it was man's. If it was smaller than the index than it was a woman's....I don't know how true this is let alone where this info even came from.

Quote from: nolife on July 17, 2010, 10:02:54 AM
I don't know about the hands but fingerwise, I heard once that if the ring finger is longer than the index, it was man's. If it was smaller than the index than it was a woman's....I don't know how true this is let alone where this info even came from.

It has more to do with the amount of testosterone you receive in the womb. My ring finger is longer than my index finger.

They also say that some lesbians tend to have longer ring fingers and some gay men have equal index and ring fingers.

It's not a legit way of determining sex, but it would be considered 'masculine'.

Quote from: Kvall on July 17, 2010, 03:15:04 PM
The lesbian part is true, but not the gay male part. On average gay men have more masculine ratios than straight men.

That's quite interesting.

From what I've read, gay men can have higher or lower ratios than straight men. Either way, they tend to not be "normal."

I think man hands are usually big and hairy lol and women hands are smaller?