[thanosnose]

> Reading the title alone gives the impression that this is a change to appease the LGBT community or after receiving some similar pressure.

Because that's the real impetus behind the gender hypersensitivy in society lately.

> Using gender neutral pronoun when writing about people whose gender you do not know is simply being polite.

Sure. It's alsom polite to use genders when you do know it. But the point is that if 90% of one profession is male and 90% of another profession is female, then it makes complete sense for it to autocomplete to "him" and "her". For the few exceptions, you could edit "him" to "her" and vice versa.

> I wouldn't want Google to show me autocomplete suggestions for "do you want to meet him" when I'm writing an email to my mom or my girlfriend.

If 90% of your emails were to your father or brother and 10% were to your mohter/girlfriend, wouldn't you want it to autocomplete to "him"? And the 10% of the time, just edit "him" to "her" when you are emailing your mother or gf?

Besides, is your mother or gf going to go crazy if you accidently used the wrong pronoun? Wouldn't they know it was a mistake?