Thread:SolarMist/@comment-25828727-20150316223431/@comment-17760674-20150317235825

People who are sensitive about gender pronouns usually indicate whether they're a guy or girl in their profile (and, on other sites such as forums, their signature, etc)

otherwise you can't really blame people for using the wrong pronouns, because we're not gonna spend 5+ minutes searching your contributions to see if you mentioned you're a guy or girl somewhere, because if we did that then we'd have to do that for everyone else, and not everyone's sensitive about their gender

so in the interest of saving time, we jump to conclusions--which is still a bad habit, especially when the social norm online is to use gender-neutral pronouns (usually "they"/"them") until the gender of someone is known