Look, I don't particularly want this to degrade into a stupid pointless flame war, but getting this sort of thing right does matter. Given the relative gender

Look, I don't particularly want this to degrade into a stupid pointless flame war, but getting this sort of thing right does matter. Given the relative gender disparity in the technology field, it's easy to make the assumption that any given developer is a man – we all do it sometimes! It's useful to have that pointed out when we're wrong, so that we can be reminded that we sometimes make incorrect assumptions, and eventually it hopefully won't happen as much. None of the comments along those lines have been needlessly faux-offended, or attacking anyone – just pointing out a mistake that it would be good to rectify. It's really not harming anyone :)