Male authors who prefer using female pronouns

[Rev. Rye]

If you're assigning a gender to a situation like the one you describe, I'd suggest flip a coin if you care that much about the issue. I'd say heads, the person is male. If tails, make them female. That should be reasonably fair.

Why heads as male? I think flipping a coin to decide which gender gets heads should be done first.

Okay, here's an idea. Apparently, the heavier side of a coin (heads, usually) is slightly more likely to hit the ground, making it about 51/49. By an extraordinary coincidence, that's actually close to the ratio of male to female in the world's population. Give the females the lighter side (tails, if the heads side is heavier) for the little extra edge that reflects the actual incidence of the genders.

And look, I just reconstructed the heads is male, tails is female idea, and created a rationale that explains it with statistics, and even makes it reflect the slightly larger number of women than men. And the damnedest thing? I didn't even actually set out to do so when I first hit "reply." I remembered that there was a slight edge about a regular coin that can skew the odds slightly, and since it said that the heavier side of a penny is the heads side, casing it to land slightly more often tails side up. If there are coins with a heavier tails side (the research I found didn't bother with other coins), feel free to change it to reflect that.