Talk:Astolfo/@comment-31242715-20170206021931/@comment-28209103-20170207011529

wikipediais your friend. He is the traditional way to refer to object of unknown gender in english.

"Another target of frequent criticism by proponents of gender-neutral language is the use of the masculine pronoun he (and its derived forms him, his and himself) to refer to antecedents of indeterminate gender. Although this usage is traditional, its critics argue that it was invented and propagated by men, whose explicit goal was the linguistic representation of men's superiority."

this is the one of the basic premise of gender language study