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I don't know if French still does it that way, but in high school French class we were taught to use il (he) for gender neutral. Basically everyone (English native class) thought it was super sexist. The teacher basically explained it as "languages are all really old so they retain a lot of obsolete ideals." IMO that's not really an excuse for keeping those obsolete parts.