Because "he" is the correct English pronoun when gender is unknown.

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

LOLOLOL, and what a foolish thing to do, when the majority of all beings with genders is female — I mean, even in human population, women are the majority, perhaps it’s long overdue that we open our minds to some new assumptions.

(Of course, in German the traditional use is the same as in English.)


Graffiti on a toilet door in some university:

“I wonder how God looks like.”

Answer, with another another pen: “I’m sure she’s black!”

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“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” — Salvador Dali ★ Play a slooooow correspondence game with me on OGS?

I did not defend it, I merely stated it. But, because English does not refer to humans (and higher beings) by using a neutral case, there has to be a choice between male and female. It is not surprising that, given that history of the west, and in particular English, that the male pronoun has become the default.

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

I would like some answers for this question which I posted on page 2 please:

To my knowledge, it is not proven that tengen is the best first move, even on 9x9... So yes, maybe another move may be better...

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Converting the book Shape UP! by Charles Matthews/Seong-June Kim
to the gobook format. last updated april 2015 - Index of shapes, p.211 / 216

9x9 Go is not solved so we don't know for sure what the best first move is. I do recall KlausP, a German 4d who was for a long time the top 9x9 player on OGS, used to rarely open at tengen as black and preferred other corner moves.