To give someone the finger is now a profane term, but your book shows that the finger has been a sacred symbol, too. How did it figure into religious life and imagery?

In certain situations, giving someone the one-finger salute is an effective way to let someone know how you feel about them. Originating as a phallic gesture developed by the ancient Greeks ...

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Giving your neighbour the finger, while maybe not polite, is protected as part of the bird-flipper's right to freedom of expression under the Canadian Constitution, a judge recently ruled.

CANADA'S TRUDEAU OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO CHINA ELECTION MEDDLING "To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger," Canadian Judge Dennis Galiatsatos wrote in his Feb. 24 ruling.

A woman gives the middle finger to a cyclist after a run-in with the group in Ballantyne, NC, in 2016. Courtesy of Angela Olson In certain situations, giving someone the one-finger salute is an ...

Giving the middle finger may not be nice, but it is people’s “God-given” right, a Canadian judge has ruled in clearing a man of harassment charges in a neighbors’ quarrel.

Bill Gates' company is contributing to the coarsening of the culture with a new middle finger emoji. It's scheduled for a mid-2015 release in Windows 10, reports Emojipedia Blog.

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A Quebec judge declared last month, as he acquitted a man who had been accused of threatening and harassing his neighbor, that Canadians have a “God-given” right to give someone the middle finger.