Not white knighting at all, you have the right of it: back in the day, women in hip-hop and the like decided they don't like being called "bitches" anymore, so all the homies did some 3,000 IQ word magic and changed it to "females"—which somehow, to me, feels even more dehumanizing ("the (adult) female of the (alien) species"). I've spent a third of my life wondering why no one else recognizes this as the same pejorative. I can't comment on the game's intent of course, but it really is an interesting topic.