[S.]

In a male dominant society, men tend to want control, to nurture and to be a provider for ‘their’ woman. They feel they would be seen as weak if their woman seemed to be more dominant than them. Within your socio-demographic, men will tend to prefer ‘feminine’ females. We have had years of being fed an ‘image’ of the perfect woman by the media. This ranges from Disney’s Snow White – a stay-at-home housewife, if you will, who prepares the house for her seven working men, to Sleeping Beauty – who falls asleep and is awoken by her perfect man (you can’t get any more passive than that) – to a modern advertising industry that says, ‘Use our product, become more attractive and capture your man.’

This is also a society that puts physical beauty over intelligence. You can say I’m stronger than you, but you can’t say I’m more intelligent than you without appearing conceited. Any woman not conforming to any of the above stereotyping will be seen as an outsider and will be referred to in derogatory terms. So the short answer is you are causing male insecurity! Although most would deny or not recognize it if questioned.

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[S.]

While at school, through no fault of my own, I ended up being picked on or ‘bullied’ and ‘sent to Coventry’ (ignored and not spoken to) by the majority of the people in my class. It was so bad that people were bullied by the ringleaders if they were seen talking to me. I had no one to stick up for me, and I was quite big for my age, so it was presumed that I could look after myself. I am a pacifist and dislike violence of any sort, so I would try my best to talk my way out of it. Sometimes I could, sometimes I couldn’t. When I went home, Dad used to say hit em back, and Mum would say run away. Not a single teacher stood up for me, and they knew it was happening – like the time the contents of my bag were thrown out of a first-story window by a bully (the teacher laughed with the rest of the class!). All of this has left deep scars … I saw one of he ringleaders last year, and even 18 years on I started to panic, and my chest felt tight.

I will always stick up for the underdog; I dislike bullying in any shape or form and will go out of my way to deter, prevent and discourage it. The effects of bullying last longer than most people think, and I am sure the severity of any bullying adds to how long it lasts.

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[S.]

The ‘war’ you are refering to was not during the Hundred Years War. It was during the reign of Henry V and was called the Battle of Agincourt (in France). The French were fearful of British Longbowmen (Welsh longbowmen, actually), as they were inflicting heavy casualties, and they would often cut off the index and middle fingers on the right hand. These two fingers were used to draw the bowstring, and so to taunt the French the Bowmen would ‘flick’ their fingers at the French, and culturally that’s how the British insult anyone, but this has been superceded somewhat by the middle finger, a phallic representation.

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