@gopiandcode @Gamercat @tuxcrafting thank god we don't have that issue in Spanish.

@TheMadPirate @gopiandcode @tuxcrafting in russian use "оно", for undeterminate gender.

@Gamercat nope, you would not use that pronoun to refer to people, unless trying to be derogatory (or unless specifically asked to, pretty much like "it" in english). You usually default to masculine, the implication being that you're talking about a person/human, the word for which has masculine gender. You can't use any other pronoun for the word person/human. This is usually not seen as problematic, since every noun in the language has a gender and it's often arbitrary, like, a fork is feminine, and a knife is masculine. In some instances this might reflect/coincide with certain archaic world views, but to most people it's just a curiosity. You can't give much meaning to a person being a he, when, say, a toilet is also a he.
@TheMadPirate @gopiandcode @tuxcrafting

@namark @Gamercat @gopiandcode @tuxcrafting
>"since every noun in the language has a gender and it's often arbitrary, like, a fork is feminine, and a knife is masculine"
That depends on the language

@TheMadPirate I meant Russian, specifically.
@gopiandcode @tuxcrafting @Gamercat

@namark @TheMadPirate @gopiandcode @tuxcrafting смысле?

@Gamercat человек - он
@tuxcrafting @gopiandcode @TheMadPirate