People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression.
