All This Is That: Middle fingers of the month, No. 26 (subset: women giving the finger, part 3)

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Middle fingers of the month, No. 26 (subset: women giving the finger, part 3)

By Mona Goldwater, Gestures and Signs Editor

A new roundup of middle fingers. About half of these were sent in by readers... /Mona

Kathy Griffin

this is "someone," but I don't know who...

Some of my selected recent finger compilations on All This Is That

All This Is That: Middle finger of the day: the sun gives earth the finger

All This Is That: Middle Finger of the day, No. 24

All This Is That: Middle Finger of the day, No. 23

All This Is That: Middle finger of the day No. 20 ("the girls can do it too").

All This Is That: Middle finger of the day No. 21 ("the women can do it ...

All This Is That: Finger of the day, No. 22

Finger of the day: More celebrity fingers

Big Bird Gives The Finger

Political Fingers

Middle fingers of the month

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...: what did they mean by showing the middle finger?; 4/22/2012
Keekee Brummet said...: Edwin, I guess this is western-centric? It started out as an obscene gesture, but is now used to mean many different things, in context both friendly, and hostile.

This explains it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(gesture)

/jack; 4/22/2012
celeste said...: Who sent my picture? lol. Nothing obscene, i was just showing my tattoo (the diamond one).; 5/07/2012
Keekee Brummet said...: Celeste - I can't remember who sent your picture to us. But it's a great tattoo! /jack; 5/07/2012

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