I definitely wouldn't be surprised if people who see Buffy as fighting actual personalities were more likely to initially perceive something Buffy picks up as a weapon rather than a tool. There's a long thread in S7 (and S8 as well, I think, though I find the comics very hard to read thematically) that as much as Buffy is positioned as a general in an army, she isn't one and that shouldn't be her role. (She repeatedly argues she isn't one; when she tries it all goes horribly wrong; etc.) I think that's there in support of the argument that good vs. evil isn't a war - it's a necessity (or natural, or something), so she performs better when she acts like an amateur, which does tend to rub me up the wrong way.

The comment about battlescythes was sort of a hammer and sickle reference, but more a generalised communist-in-spirit peasants-uprising-throughout-history reference, because I imagine there were more revolts than have been documented where farm labourers used the most convenient blade they had to make a decent weapon. That's a very interesting connection to the ceremonial though. (Having said that, I'm still waiting for the fanwank that explains Bronze Age steel+acrylic construction.)

Calling it a scythe-symbol of death is a statement abut Buffy’s calling that fits what the Guardian (let us not talk of her) implied was the first original Slayer’s purpose. She killed the last true demon after clearing back the demon hordes that once ruled this plane(like rainforest weeds) and made the world safe for agriculture.

I understand your point from angearia's post about weeds now! Yes, that reads very well and I like it a lot. It ties in very well (if sadly) with the whole 'chained her to the earth' idea from Get It Done - she was like a grazing animal, only she grazed on demons.