I attribute my distraction entirely to the sense that it was directed at a presumed male audience.
What makes you think the audience factors in at all? I’d think this phrasing would be much more an indication that the writer is male. Why would I feel excluded by someone writing about the world from their own perspective? If I had written this post, I would have written “Men would still be alluring”; and I would have written it that way because I am a woman attracted to men, not because I expect my audience to be mostly women attracted to men.
What makes you think the audience factors in at all? I’d think this phrasing would be much more an indication that the writer is male. Why would I feel excluded by someone writing about the world from their own perspective? If I had written this post, I would have written “Men would still be alluring”; and I would have written it that way because I am a woman attracted to men, not because I expect my audience to be mostly women attracted to men.