I have to say that one of the most _personally_ offensive things I have seen from anti-inclusion bigots (who try to soften/make cute their abject bigotry by calling themselves & #39;exclus& #39; like they& #39;re some sort of cutesy fandom instead of vile community-splitting bigots)...
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... is their co-opting of the term & #39;battleaxe bi& #39;.

For those of you who don& #39;t know, "Battleaxe Bi" was created by @foxflightstudio and initially posted on Tumblr on April 12, 2018. It was part of the Orientation Armory series.
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You can find the original post here:
https://foxflightstudios.tumblr.com/post/172873229556/the-second-weapon-from-my-orientation-armory

This">https://foxflightstudios.tumblr.com/post/1728... term has been co-opted to refer to... I don& #39;t even know, some sort of & #39;I hate people who I don& #39;t think are the right kind of queer& #39; nonsense.

And that is, frankly, PERSONALLY offensive to me as an artist.
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Taking the beautiful, and EXPRESSLY INCLUSIVE art of an artist -- whose message of & #39;WE FIGHT AS ONE& #39; is a central part of the Orientation Armory -- and trying to turn it into a message of exclusion and hate?

That& #39;s gross. That& #39;s offensive.
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https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/WE-FIGHT-AS-ONE-by-foxflight/34870212.NL9AC">https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt...
And if you don& #39;t know that they& #39;ve been trying to co-opt beautiful inclusive art and turn it into something nasty?

Now you know. And you know now that they didn& #39;t & #39;invent& #39; that phrase for themselves.

They stole it.

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My (queer, non-binary, bi) spouse wears a Battleaxe Bi pin on their battle jacket. They love the imagery, and we were backers on the Kickstarter BECAUSE they loved that. (Also I had a trident but it broke twice :( )

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As an artist, I can& #39;t think of anything grosser or more offensive than someone taking an inclusive message I worked hard to bring into the world and perverting it.

Just in case you thought they have any respect for anything, the anti-inclusion bigots absolutely do not.
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