I'm really not offended... But I did have HR laughing!
Several people at my office often use some variation of the saying-
"I mean I guess we have to bend over and just take it from them." as in we need to do something unpleasant or detrimental in order to please a client.
Men, women, young, old... I've heard almost every demographic say it. I went to a friend in HR and with a straight face, explained that as a gay man who THOROUGHLY enjoys 'bending over and taking it, I'm offended by using that term in a negative way. My friend just stuttered and didn't know what to do. I let them them off the hook and told them I was mostly joking. I pointed out, the odd thing is, in some training sessions they did say the term 'rape' should never be used - "They are raping us with that price increase..."
Wouldn't it raise some eyebrows if I said "I guess I need to have vaginal sex to make them happy..."? We laughed and went to lunch, but it did make them think!
Just a random share...