Easy fix, just call anyone by their names or if talking about a third party, refer to that party as "person", "human", "animal", "alien"..........that´s it, I think I included all the fauna you can encounter around here ;P

That is actually a great common ground. Adopted !
Month of the goglodyte : hungarian population doubles !

Edit : that or 'comrade'.

I obviously can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not offended by accidentally being called 'he' online. If I feel like identifying myself as female, I might correct the pronoun, but to be honest, I like the anonymity. It sort of puts me in control of the would-be gender based assumptions made about me.

I've noticed the men at this particular forum feel really bad about calling me a dude if I tell someone they got it wrong. That's sweet, but there's no need to apologize profusely and beat yourself up about it. You can't see whom you're talking to on the forums, so how is the speaker going to know I'm a woman?

It's not a big deal, guys. =D

Same problem here! I keep on using he/she, though its bureaucratic sound is not very pleasing. In italian, I solve this problem by often using impersonal forms or subject elision, something very easy to do in my language.

For example, while in English I would say: "X is aware that he/she can do this", in Italian it would be correct to say: "X is aware that can do this", since the person has already been mentioned.

*Doesn't look at the community wishlist, for fear that someone might have demanded gender icons* :P

I think you boys and girls overthink it. On the Internet you can be anything you want and can imagine others to be also anything... Back in the old days there was a saying that "The Internet is a place where men are men, women are men and children are federal agents". A lot has changed since then, but even today it's impossible to really know someone's gender over the Internet, except if you've seen them face to face before. I seldom speak about third parties but I usually stick to 'he' until someone corrects me. It's not ill will but statistics...

LOL +1
True. Practically everyone works for the feds these days.

I don't like the he/she/it variations.

I would like, then, to ask politely everyone to address me as "The Overlord". Thank you very much!

1) I don't think it's a big deal to say "he" instead of "she" or "she" instead of "he", whether we are or aren't corrected.

2) Where I studied, they use the feminine form as a plural which implicitely includes the masculine form. It's fun and cool and clever.

3) "Quand on fait un faux pas, faux pas, faut pas le regretter. Ce qui c'est passé là, ssé là, c'est la faute à l'été. Le plaisir de céder, céder, c'est déjà merveilleux. Ceux qui disent que c'est laid, c'est laid, c'est les plus malheureux. (...) Pour empêcher d'aimer, d'aimer, des méchants nous font peur. Ces gens qui nous séparent, séparent, c'est par goût du malheur. Ceux qui ont passé l'heure, ssé l'heure, c'est leur faute au départ. Car même quand il neige, il neige, il n'est jamais trop tard..." Acccording to Francis Blanche (right).

This is how I deal with the situation as well, but it appears that using "they/ them/ their/ themselves" as a third person singular form for indeterminate gender is not well known, though a good number of writers use it (Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell and C. S. Lewis, just to name a few).

Here's an interesting read on the use of the singular "they".

Well, seeing a guy's avatar as a woman's hot ass kinda confuses me a little... both brains aren't sure what to think of the 'person'.

I'm a woman! Or a man! Or an octopus!
Some days I'm not sure. :)

I also go with statistics like blotunga, and assign people the male pronoun unless corrected.
I tend to try and stay as gender neutral as possible because I believe the internet should be a place where everyone is accepted for their deeds/ words rather than their sex.
GOG isn't a place that discriminates against people because they're female, but I've read articles on sites where this is so. So, in order not to perpetuate the male bias, I am now officially declaring I am a snail.
I am hermaphroditic, and thus can be addressed as "hey, you", "he", "she" or "it". :P

Statistically speaking you're most likely to be a cat. The internet is full of them!

Interesting!

Sounds like some kind of ultra PC conspiracy, in accordance with the SJW agenda to me... -_-