I think you are desperately scratching at straws, or misread something critical.
offense can only be taken.
what you read was.
only offense can be taken.
These two statements are different.
notably, the first one implies that the party that is offended is the party that decided to be offended. it also implies that offense can not be given, which would mean that offense is not something that the other party can imbue unto you.
both of those things are true, someone chooses to be offended, even if the other chooses to be offensive.
the second implies that in a situation like that, there is only one outcome, that one party is going to be offended. however, based on the eve of this argument, with the backing of myself existing as proof, it can be denoted that this statement is intrinsically false.
Please, if you're going to use language picks as a way to argue, use it correctly, it only makes you look the fool otherwise.