> Before the weird sex stuff, "gimp" was an insulting term for a crippled person. The fact that it's so long out of common use for that purpose that a lot of folks don't realize that is perhaps an argument for not taking it too seriously

It's a US specific slur when used in this context, not in other English speaking countries (let alone non-English countries) A lot of GIMP developers are European yet the Glimpse project tried to force American cultural/linguistic rules on a non-American project.

Words mean different things in different regions and languages, just because it's offensive in your language does not mean it's offensive in others.

They didn't try to force anybody to do anything. They forked a Free Software project as allowed by the license. You seem awfully sensitive.