When I hear a person claim to be offended by some spoken word or another, I interpret that to mean that the offended person is incapable of controlling their own emotions and need help from everyone around them to do that.
If benign words offend a person, that's their problem, not my problem.
I'm not going to overthink everything I say in a futile effort to never offend.
If this lunacy continues to be tolerated, it will never end until our language is reduced to just a few hundred "allowable" words.
How boring.