@liaizon @dheadshot but the thing is, how do you translate such pronouns between languages? And, in Russian again, certain words, like verbs in past tense, change suffixes based on the gender:
M: Иван оставил комментарий
F: Анастасия оставила комментарий
There's no gender-neutral form. There's "neutral" grammatical gender (with suffix -о) but it's never used with people. Some people get around this by writing constructs like "оставил(а)", but that just feels sloppy.
@liaizon @dheadshot actually I only now noticed that Mastodon is doing this exact thing lol