The thing that bothers me the most about it is that the changes are almost always proposed by someone who isn't actually part of the offended group, but wants to make it seem like they are fighting widespread oppression. For example, there used to be a site called genie.sexy that was a 3rd party fan page for the genie text editor. I saw a male on another site complain that the term "sexy" might be offensive to women, so they started bugging the genie maintainers about it until the site was taken down, even though the site had no affiliation at all with the project. Sometimes the requests are also just rediculous, like a project that changed "blacklist" and "whitelist" because they believe that it associates "black" with bad, thus causing a bias against black people.