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[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh, so that's what those words from Yankee Doodle mean...

[–]slushpilot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Doodle

The term macaroni was used to describe a fashionable man who dressed and spoke in an outlandishly affected and effeminate manner.

In British conversation, the term "Yankee doodle dandy" implied unsophisticated misappropriation of upper-class fashion, as though simply sticking a feather in one's cap would transform the wearer into a noble. [...] the British were insinuating that the colonists were lower-class men who lacked masculinity, emphasizing that the American men were womanly.

By 1781, Yankee Doodle had turned from being an insult to being a song of national pride.

Punk rock, basically. Turning the other cheek as an act of subversion.