So how should women and kids deal with Dr Dong? Would it make sense to metaphorically pull Dr Dong out and offer some friendly advice about changing their name, one with a better culture fit?

Not a doctor, but I changed my name in college because even if people are too adult to make fun of the name, they still get an awkward look on their face. Also, professors struggled to mispronounce my name in order to make it sound less lewd to their English speaking ears.

Or, to use a personal example: My pediatrician was Dr. Raper. To my recollection, the rather infelicitous nature of his last name never came up in conversation among his patients, although I’m sure the oddity of it crossed some minds...

Semi related, it always bothered me how cool we are with the term “therapist”, even for someone who treats rape victims.

Wow, I don't think I will be able to unsee this.

Children will deal with it badly, of course. That's why it is a mitigation, not a solution. Unnecessarily creating opportunities for the problem to manifest will not result in the problem being solved more quickly; it will only increase the damage from it.

So the whole world has to bend to the US's language/culture. What about the other way, when american words sound offensive in other languages?

The Chevy Nova was famous for its interpretation by Mexicans. In Mexico it means “doesn’t go” which is a less than ideal name for a car.

If it's true that you can detect bad actors by seeing them persistently make inappropriate jokes about Coq in the workplace, then might it actually be a good thing to have something named Coq? Because you can detect them and deal with them early before they do something worse than make dumb jokes. If that works, that sounds useful enough that one might consider deliberately giving something a funky name.

Following that train of thought, given that kids will eventually encounter something that makes them giggle, mightn't it be good for them to do that and get used to being "professional" as early as possible? (Though there's probably an age below which getting them to stop giggling wouldn't work at all.)

Last, considering the case of a male professor that makes sexual innuendo towards female students as a come-on... I don't know how these things work, but is it possible that this would make it easier for the girls to figure out that he's "creepy" and someone they should avoid (possibly even giving him a reputation they learn about before meeting him), thus reducing the likelihood that he's in a position to do something worse? In fact, given today's neopuritan colleges, it seems likely that him doing that might in itself get him fired; or at least it could put him on thin ice, to be more immediately condemned if students start accusing him of doing worse things.

I don't know if the above scenarios would actually happen that way. But I do suspect that the people arguing to get the name removed haven't thought through second-order effects like those.