[OTR-users] sexist assumptions in README, process_receiving_im()

[David Thiel]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:37:46PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > There are also multiple masculine references in the README. Obviously,
> > females are also potential users of using the software.
> 
> I hope you are aware that in English when the gender is unknown we use
> the masculine.

According to whom? Is there some problem with "ended their session"?
Even if you make that claim for the documentation, in the context of the
status message, the gender of the other person *is* known to the end
user, thus making the pronoun inaccurate if that person is a female.