Middle Finger Meaning
- Definition of middle finger.: the midmost of the five digits of the hand.
- The Finger, an extended middle finger with the back of the hand towards the recipient, is an obscene hand gesture used in much of Western culture. Finger gun is a hand gesture in which the subject uses their hand to mimic a handgun.
Middle Finger Meaning Women
People wear them to look fly while flipping people off.
If it's black it's a symbol of asexuality.
It has archaic symbolism with Saturn.
It has nothing to do with homosexuality. Gays wear rings on their thumbs for oil checks.
A ring worn on the left middle finger doesn't necessarily stand for anything. However, since the middle finger is central to the hand and is the longest finger, a ring on this digit can symbolize power and responsibility, if you wish. This finger is also a good choice if you want to show off a ring without making a statement about your life.
Person 2:'I don't knowBrenda, why don't you fucking ask them?'
n. the act of finding someone/something to blame for a problem
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Kate: Well she is wearing a middle finger ring. Let’s hope she knows about its meaning.
“Nah she just like to flip people off”
-“Are you kidding? He’s wearing a Middle finger ring.”
It is more comfortable to wear here something sturdy than the other fingers for people who are not used to wear rings.
Some people say it has to do with balance and Saturn.
They are not common for most people wear them on the finger next to it, and you shouldn't assume it has to do something with sexuality.
Girl 2- I can see your middle finger ring, it is beautiful! Did you give one to him?
Girl 1- Yes, he is wearing it too in the same finger.
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Last night, Anthony Weiner ended his disastrous run for mayor with a crude gesture at a reporter. Political wisdom of the act aside, it turns out that raising the middle finger — flipping the bird, as it's commonly known — has a surprisingly complex history.
The gesture is ubiquitous, but where does it come from? Well, according to a hard-hitting investigation by BBC, people having been flipping each other off since the dawn of Western civilization:
The Roman historian Tacitus wrote that German tribesmen gave the middle finger to advancing Roman soldiers...Earlier, the Greeks used the middle finger as an explicit reference to the male genitalia.
Slate notes that 'the middle finger gesture fell out of favor during the Middle Ages, likely because the Catholic Church disapproved of its sexual suggestiveness.'
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With a provenance like that, it's no accident that the middle finger remains one of the truest, crudest ways to display your displeasure with another human being. First usage of the middle finger in the United States to be captured on camera is believed to have been in 1886, by pitcher Charles Radbourn:
Apparently, flipping the bird even played a role in our foreign affairs, according to Yahoo:
In 1968, the USS Pueblo was captured by North Korea. Crew members were held and interrogated for months. Photographs of supposedly docile and well-treated crew members were released to the world press. In the photographs, many of the crew flipped the bird. Eventually, the North Koreans inquired why this hand gesture was in so many photos. The imprisoned crew explained it as the Hawaiian Good Luck Sign. For sometime, this satisfied the North Koreans. Most importantly, it shows even in 1968, flipping the bird was not a universal sign.
Nor is Weiner the only New York politician to have recently shown the middle finger: former mayor David Dinkins did so when heckled three years ago. Long before that, in 1976, Nelson Rockefeller, the New York governor, gave the middle finger to protesters in Binghamton, N.Y. He is perhaps the most prominent New Yorker to have given the middle finger, which would come to be known as 'the Rockefeller gesture.'
That puts Weiner in good company, if little else does.
Photos: Anthony Weiner via Twitter; Charles Radbourn: 19C Baseball via Wikimedia Commons.
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