Meaning of attack helicopter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An armed helicopter with the offensive capability of engaging ground targets such as enemy infantry, military vehicles, and fortifications.
2. A fictitious gender assigned or suggested in quips, used to dismiss non-binary gender identities, and sometimes also transness in general.
   Internet, derogatory, humorous, neologism, offensive

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] but that wasn't “inclusive” enough, so now the gender listing isn't a checkbox with either “male” or “female” — it's a fill-in-the-blank where you can list anything from peanut butter to an attack helicopter as your gender. […]”

“'I identify⟳ as an attack helicopter' is a regular dismissal of non-binary identities; hearing this can be a weekly occurrence. The support⟳ of other non-binary people and bibliotherapy of good non-binary sources can be a remedy to this.”

“[…] going to be spending a fair amount of time waiting like⟳ a twit in a cosmetic store while your wife / girlfriend / cis-gender / attack helicopter reads every damn label⟳ on every damn blusher, or pillar of lipstick, or whatever it is.”

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