What's wrong with people nowadays? Couldn't they come with a better name ?
They're much less concerned about their language now.
I don't mean to overstate the case - it's not a swearword or the sort of thing you'd really censor, just a playground term for a mean person. All the same it's an ugly word and (however irrationally) this is one of the reasons I prefer Mercurial to this day.
* Here in our project we use shit, and it's very good. * do "shit pull" / "shit pop" * Sorry, I don't have shit in my machine.
But, again, english is a funny language.