“Is it inappropriate? That’s another question,” he tells NPR’s Audie Cornish. But, he says, “it doesn’t mean what it used to mean.”
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“In the time of Caligula … it was intended to be representative of a phallic symbol. Not today.”
Instead, Robbins argues, flipping the bird is an expression of “frustration or rage or anger or protest or disdain.”
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