Substitute "bro" for any word that you would find inappropriate and the problem becomes obvious.
Should Coq - the proof assistant - be renamed to something else, because it is pronounced like "cock"?
Yes? Even though it is a project of the INRIA (One of France's Computer Science research institute) and means "rooster" in French.
This overly fixated attitude toward "respecting other people's boundaries" is very much begging for mockery. Perhaps as much as it is intellectually dishonest because it leaves so many questions, and unknowns unanswered.
How do you know what are the others' personal boundaries? Is there group whose boundaries does not matter> Does this rule extend to any creative work? Should existing projects be renamed? Are boundaries dynamics? Can someone be offended by this rule? Or are there rules about things that you can be offended about, or not?
There are so many issues with this paradigm of thinking.
Let me suggest an alternative: common sense.
I really wouldn't defend intellectual honesty with a slippery-slope argument.
In other words, it amounts to "stop doing things I don't like", and doesn't take into account the reasonableness (or lack thereof) of the person taking offense.
This is about those boundaries being completely unreasonable. We're talking about the homonym of a gendered noun -- not even the (otherwise neutral) noun itself!
>Substitute "bro" for any word that you would find inappropriate and the problem becomes obvious.
Replace any loving, sensible statement with "black people should be lynched" and the problem becomes obvious.
Give me a break.
From Urban Dictionary: "ii)Br: A dumbass online gamer who also hails from Brazil but is ignorant of rules and disrespectful of fellow gamers. Uses his or her lack of knowledge of the English language to try and get away with breaking rules"
Hmm.