Meme Context: “gimp” in english is a strong derogative slur for disabled people. People complain about the program name regularly as it makes hard to push for it both publicly (seen as silly) as well as within companies (seen as unprofessional and silly). The maintainer however believes they can redefine a 100 year old slur all on their own. Lower text “answers” inspired by this.
I think it’s worth keeping the name so that people searching for dodgy bondage suits get a chance to download some quality image processing software by mistake.