Do you really think that it assumes the reader is male? Why not the caller? Can't the function written in the user's code be masculine, just like boats are fe

Do you really think that it assumes the reader is male? Why not the caller? Can't the function written in the user's code be masculine, just like boats are feminine? (This was largely intended as hyperbole, I don't know why "it" is not the answer. Distancing and dehumanizing language seems appropriate when talking about function calls.)