4. Making gender friendliness
In addition, some BEE hand gestures specifying the meaning of romance and love expressions like the finger kissing or the finger ILY-sign are mostly performed by female members. On the other hand, the BEE hand gesture thumb up (see the Figure 4b) indicating rudeness is identified as truly male dominating in this community. In fact, as a native communicative sign the extended thumb of this hand gesture gets a metaphoric shape of man’s organs. Hence due to the existing social taboo female persons usually do not perform this thumb up gesture. Except these 4 communicative signs mentioned above, all other BEE hand gestures are exclusively gender friendly because these are commonly performed by both male and female in the Bengali community.