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I find it annoying when 'he' is used as a default pronoun for an entity of unknown gender.
you must find it really annoying to learn Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and a bunch of other languages that have gendered nouns.
As a native speaker of one of the above, I'm sometimes confused when people online use "he" for a generic duck or cat or other animals that are female in my native language
I believe in English you would use it if you don't know an animal's gender. But it's not my first language either so