Where did it originate from? and why is it considered an inapporiate behavior socially?
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English longbowmen. Back during the hundred’s years war between France and England, the story goes that French forces used to cut the middle/middle an pointer fingers off of captured longbow men, because this would prevent them from ever being able to properly pull a longbow again.
This lead to English soldiers waving their (un-cut-off) fingers at defeated French forces as a sort of “fuck you we won you didn’t get these fingers”.
Which then just eventually lead to showing someone your middle finger being taken as offensive (or in the UK, doing a backwards peace sign to someone is also offensive, to the point that the the creators of left for dead ✌🏼(2) intentionally changed the cover at of the European release.
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