Assertion: middle finger | /r/HasProperty | obscene
Facets:
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
value: in most cultures
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: While the middle finger may historically have symbolised a phallus, it has lost that distinctive meaning and is no longer even obscene, says Ira Robbins, a law professor at American University in Washington DC, who has studied the gesture's place in criminal jurisprudence.
text: In Western culture, "the finger" or the middle finger (as in giving someone the (middle) finger or the bird or flipping someone off) is an obscene hand gesture.
text: In most cultures, the middle finger is considered an obscene gesture.
text: While the middle finger may historically have symbolised a phallus, it has lost that distinctive meaning and is no longer even obscene, says Ira Robbins, a law professor at American University in Washington DC, who has studied the gesture's place in criminal jurisprudence.