This is like saying Richard is an unfortunate name, because some people call their phallus that. If gash is profane, how do you feel about the words valley, doo

This is like saying Richard is an unfortunate name, because some people call their phallus that. If gash is profane, how do you feel about the words valley, doorway, gatehouse, shaft, cabin in the woods? The store GAP? Definition of gash in a regular dictionary: tr.v. gashed, gash·ing, gash·es To make a long deep cut in; slash deeply. n. 1. A long deep cut. 2. A deep flesh wound. [1540–50; alter. (with -sh perhaps from slash1) of Middle English garsen < Old French garser, jarsier to scarify, wound < Vulgar Latin *charaxāre < Greek charássein to scratch, notch]