Also, even if it didn’t use the male-as-default construction, if it instead used male and female terms that were both modified from a base word by approximately equal amounts, it would still promote the silly idea that gender is something that always has to be pointed out every time you refer to people.
I dislike this wording as unnecessarily promoting male-as-unmarked-state.
also it’s just plain clumsy sounding
Also, even if it didn’t use the male-as-default construction, if it instead used male and female terms that were both modified from a base word by approximately equal amounts, it would still promote the silly idea that gender is something that always has to be pointed out every time you refer to people.