LIE: The Phrase 'Rule of Thumb' Pertains to Archaic Wife-Beating Laws.

There is a feminist teaching, still going on in our schools today. The phrase, "RULE OF THUMB" originated from an old wife-beating term. That is, it was illegal to beat your wife with any stick that was bigger around than your thumb.

This phrase is widely used - by an unprecedented number of people.

TRUTH
Please visit WIKIPEDIA. Here is a quote from what it has to say about "RULE OF THUMB":

The earliest citation comes from Sir William Hope’s The Compleat Fencing-Master, second edition, 1692, page 157: "What he doth, he doth by rule of thumb, and not by art." The term is thought to originate with wood workers who used the length of their thumbs rather than rulers for measuring things, cementing its modern use as an imprecise yet reliable and convenient standard.
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It is often claimed that the term originally referred to a law that limited the maximum thickness of a stick with which it was permissible for a man to beat his wife, but this has been discredited.

BRAINWASHING:
What the feminists have done, is take a very common phrase, and twisted it to mean something slanderous towards men. That is, they have erroneously placed wife-beating into a large portion of the population's mouths.

In doing so, they have "commonized" wife-beating, and cheapened (actually erased) the fact that it has always been frowned upon in western cultures. That is, since so many people use the phrase, "rule of thumb", they have put a seed into the minds of young women that people have no resentment towards wife-beaters.

They have placed the lie into people's minds that wife-beating was so common, and so acceptable, that people actually regulated wife-beating - and - it was so common, that a common phrase has been passed down for dozens of generations because of the commonplace of wife-beating.