Is this logo offensive?

[u/Kokovi_illust]

Hi guys! When I was designing the logo, I sincerely didn't know about this symbol and it was honestly just a coincidence that the symbol in the logo and the intersex* symbol are the same!

In the comic, I touch on many queer situations, mental health and disabilities, however, none of it is related to intersex people experiences, and now I'm worried that I've been unknowingly making fun of it or being offensive by having made my logo this way :(

Do you think it's wiser to change the logo? Aw man, I'm just so disappointed in myself, I'm really sorry

////Edit* Someone here informed me that the term intersex is better than hermaphrodite, so I changed the terms! Sorry for my ignorance! (⁠˘⁠･⁠_⁠･⁠˘⁠)

[u/yokyopeli09]

Intersex person here, I am not remotely offended by it. What's more offensive is the term 'hermaphrodite'.

[u/Parking_Budget_1130 → u/yokyopeli09]

Yeah I was gonna say but I wasn’t sure it was my place - it’s a very outdated term that I haven’t heard since like the 90s

[u/yokyopeli09 → u/Parking_Budget_1130]

Intersex people still hear it frustratingly often. It's an outdated dehumanizing term, not to mention inaccurate, it's only used scientifically to describe certain animal species but not humans.

[u/Zorubark → u/yokyopeli09]

I love hermaphroditic animals so I wish people understood this word better, these animals are so cool and very different from humans biologically

[u/yokyopeli09 → u/Zorubark]

Exactly, hermaphroditism and intersex are two different things, they're not interchangeable.