How feminine are you: What the length of your fingers can tell you about yourself....

Comment by Stacie Dee on November 19, 2009 at 12:11am

Wow, mine are about equal if maybe the ring is a hair shorter. Interesting, though now I have to check all my friends and co-workers hands. I need to know. ;-)

Comment by Marsha M. Marsha on November 19, 2009 at 6:02am

Interesting, my wife always admierd my slender more feminine looking hands going back to when we frist met. Looking at the ahnd chart I am a lesbian. Makes sense to me.

Comment by Emily Owens on November 19, 2009 at 6:38am

This was a very interesting post Christen. And not-surprisingly, same length here (roughly)

Comment by Cheryl Jacob on November 19, 2009 at 7:20am

Very interesting, thank you for sharing this information.

Oh oh, while my Grandma always told me I have beautiful hands, I have over half an inch difference in length between the aforementioned fingers. No joke. Perhaps for me nurture will trump nature in this case.

My knuckles also drag on the ground, did the study make any mention of the implications of that? :)

Comment by Lauren Elisabeth Tancyus on November 19, 2009 at 7:38am

That is interesting; I've been interested in physical features for quite awhile and am looking into whether I might have xy/xxy klinefelter's mosaic, I've seen some studies about various physical attributes in which transsexual women are more like genetic women, pre hormone administration. I'm left handed, on my left hand my ring finger is markedly longer than my index finger, but on my right hand my ring finger is only slightly longer. I do have mixed dominance and do many things right handed. I read that women's arms in the anatomical position bend out at the elbow away from the bodies and men's are straight from the elbow. Mine are bent.

Hey Cheryl! My knuckles used to drag the ground until I went on hormones! :)

Comment by Susan Langley on November 19, 2009 at 7:51am

Christen, unlike several other respondents, my ring finger is a tad bigger than my index finger, so now I'm bummed out like I was when my kerotype results came back as bog standard XY. The good news is I have relatively small hands and wear size medium woman's gloves, so I'll take that over same size fingers any day. Also, it doesn't look like I'm a homosexual man either, which is a relief.

LOL, Sue

Comment by Carolyn Jahnes on November 19, 2009 at 11:46am

Christen, my index and ring fingers are roughly the same...my ring finger is perhaps milimeters longer than my index finger if I hold both hands up in a 'stop!' position, or lay my hands flat at the edge of my desk...interesting test...

Comment by Christen Bustani on November 19, 2009 at 12:40pm

It seems the most accurate readings are taken - palm up, fingers equally spaced and parallel to each other and press your hand down flat to ensure and accurate measurement.

I drew a horizontal line on a piece of paper and used this as a guideline as was done in the representative images in the first link.

Comment by Kristi L on November 19, 2009 at 12:53pm

Christen you are becoming our resource for research about people like us. This is great and I truly enjoy your blogs and information. I have read about finger ratios before and it seems like fairly accepted indicator. Add my name to your data sampling with equal length ring and index fingers. I hope that you will keep us informed of your results.

Comment by Christen Bustani on November 19, 2009 at 1:21pm

This is definitely the proverbial grain of salt however it appears to be a relevant grain of salt in the shaker of what is the sum of what makes us up. What I am looking at is specifically pre-natal fetal development and nothing more. There are too many additional factors involved which make us the complex creatures we are today. My look here is to understand if we are born with something already of a pre-disposition towards a specific gravitation toward one gender or the other (mentally) in life and what triggers there may exist and types of physical markers which may assimilate them.

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