I wonder about this -- as I've been gently encouraged to not use "lame" (I was using it to mean poorly made, crappy, shitty). The argument at the time iirc was "it used to mean disabled so we shouldn't use it to mean poor". I said sure, because pushing back would be wasteful of both our times, and it's an easy thing to do.

I often feel like these kinds of vocabulary updates don't really bring about "respect and inclusion", though, because everyone knows given context that I wasn't saying or implying that disabled people are lesser: the word has changed meaning. Similarly in this case I'd only ever known dork to mean nerd, and never that it was penis specific, or that it was somehow male exclusive.

I guess i think there's a case to be made for not making words "curse words", and instead understanding that usage changes, and it's needless to to encourage people (maybe enlighten people is still cool). I guess i feel like, why cage ourselves in restrictions when intent is what matters.

In this case, I do think it's a terrible name for this feature, where "search operators" is much more descriptive.