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Why would it surprise me in even the slightest? It surprises me that people would default to a specific gender when all there is to go by is a username - I would expect they/them/[username] to be the typical reference.
What surprises me more is how judgmental and hostile people are here in the absolutely horrible assumptions they're making about me, because of a very obviously sarcastic remark I made about changing the only thing I could think of having a gendered term to a gender neutral term in the documentation for an application... My bad for mistaking "documentation" for manpages, and for somehow thinking a thread about Ladybird would be about the project's previous name and a myriad of other projects. How foolish of me not to be psychic in a thread calling out people for trying to be psychics in commits and code comments, right?