Question of the Day: Rape? Gay? Mangina?

WARNING: If you are offended by any of the following terms, are homophobic, or just close minded, please stop reading this topic right now.

With that being said, recently BRK, a fellow blogger whom I respect, has joined a guild called 'Sap Girls Can't Say No'. What is my personal impression? It makes me giggle a bit, maybe I'm immature, maybe I don't know somebody who was raped IRL, maybe I think it's a clever usage of words. The fact of the matter however is, that people are going to get offended and it will reflect poorly upon him as a professional (he writes for WoWInsider.)

So, I ask this to you all, for the hot topic debate of the century, do you find the words 'rape', 'gay' , and 'mangina' offensive when used as a slang term outside of the realm of 'Sexual Assault' and 'Homosexual'.

Examples:
"That Son of Arugal totally raped me."

"The Shade of Aran fight is so gay."

My personal opinion is that It REALLY doesn't bother me and I think people over react. Also, I'm bi-sexual so when people say "omg, that's exactly what a straight white male would say." I can only laugh a little bit, maybe I'm being disrespectful of the 'gay community' or whatever, but I really think that people go overboard way too much about getting offended. My personal stance is that words can evolve, and just because we associate 'gay' with homosexual doesn't mean we can't associate it with something else years down the road, the same goes with 'rape', primarily it sticks out as a big 'sexual assault', but it can also mean to pillage/plunder/humiliate/etc. a long the lines of "Raping the countryside." which in terms you could "Rape a Son of Arugal." by utterly decimating him and pillaging his loots.

So, in short, do these words offend you? What about words like mangina and my newly coined female version? If so, how do you react to them within the in-game world, do you ignore the person, rip them a new one, or what?

Ever wish you could turn back time?

Someone on our server recently passed away. I only knew the guy here and there and in PuGs. However, I feel horrible simply not not knowing him. All of the wonderful things that were said about this person (there was a forum post about it) and I didn't have anything worth saying at all. He came to one of our MC runs once, and we all joked privately about how he sounded high and or if he was high, (Apparently he always sounded like that and was a recovering drug addict.) We didn't hate the guy, he was fun and such, but it was that simple idea of the fact that he was indeed some sort of 'noob' or 'sucked at his class' or 'was always high while playing' or whatever.

I let the opportunity to make a friend slip through my fingers. I had the chance, but due to my own jerkfaced attitude of assuming he 'wasn't a good player' I never had much of an opportunity to get to know him. I just hope by bringing something like this to light that everyone can realize that there are people behind the keyboards and not just 'avatars'. Get to know your fellow players, whether they're good or they suck, perhaps give them some pointers or just go out of your way to know them. Remember, the human interaction they have with you, may just be the last human interaction they have in their life, make it a positive one.