Field Guide to Gestures by Nancy Armstrong Melissa Wagner

Author:Nancy Armstrong,Melissa Wagner [Armstrong, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-1-59474-849-3
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services)
Published: 2015-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

Execution:

1.     Hold one hand at a comfortable distance from your body.

2.     Make a loose fist.

3.     Extend your pinkie finger.

4.     You may wiggle the finger for emphasis, but it is not necessary.

57. masturbation

57. MASTURBATION

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Usage and Origins:

The hand is held in a loose fist and shaken up and down in front of the body, just below the waist. Like many obscene gestures, this one mimes a sexual activity: male masturbation. In Britain, this gesture is often used by large crowds of spectators at football matches when a player on the opposite team makes a massive error, as if to say “You may as well have been masturbating for all the good that play did you.”

In the United States, the masturbation gesture is performed to indicate disinterest or disbelief and it is used to accentuate a story or to insult someone behind his back. Loosely, the message is that the person being gestured to or about (usually a man—this gesture is rarely used toward women) may as well be masturbating for all the attention you’re paying or for all the good it’s doing him to say what he’s saying.

It can also be used to imply that someone is being self-indulgent or self-centered.

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