Whilst English uses the male, female and neutral forms of gender the majority of languages in the world do not have grammatical gender and do not distinguish between masculine and feminine forms of the pronoun; those that do distinguish principally belong to the Indo-European or Afro-Asiatic families. So for example, Chinese, Russian and Japanese have no gender forms or only started to introduce them during the past 100 years ... so you can read say the Bible in that language and never know that Jesus is a male ... whilst other countries such as Turkey that do not have an equivalent for neutral, and lots of countries where language regarding gender is 'more complicated'. So perhaps it is best just to try and help others to improve their English rather than just berate them.
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