Counterpoint: it could also be because the speaker thinks male is default and automatically thinks of an unknown person as male.
@Sune specified that they know the person’s gender.
Oh, yes, true. However, I still maintain that particularly jerkish people would be happy to misgender in that manner as they’d think that the only good gender is male or somesuch nonsense.
Counterpoint: it could also be because the speaker thinks male is default and automatically thinks of an unknown person as male.
@Sune specified that they know the person’s gender.
Oh, yes, true. However, I still maintain that particularly jerkish people would be happy to misgender in that manner as they’d think that the only good gender is male or somesuch nonsense.