What, if any, is the significance of the middle finger?

by Anigamer4144
jeffbell

It's genital mimicry.

It goes way back, as /u/DGBD describes in this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6n55q3/did_the_english_taunt_in_the_hundred_years_war/dk7fxbp/