There are certain cases where it feels very ridiculous. For example, some authors use &quot;her&quot; to refer to even a group of people generally known to be predominantly male oriented. While it definitely won&#x27;t be criticized by any feminist group, it really is distracting from narrative point of view because most readers feel it&#x27;s unnatural. I remember thinking &quot;This guy is clearly talking about dudes, why is he using female pronoun?&quot; I also think it&#x27;s stupid to have to use female pronoun just to be safe, because this in itself is sexism--it implies that they are afraid of feminists accusing them but not afraid of masculinists (if it even exists). When I say it&#x27;s annoying I am not saying these people are annoying, I&#x27;m saying the reality we live in is annoying. In some non-english cultures they don&#x27;t have this problem because they have ways to refer to people without being gender specific.