If you keep posting flamewar comments to HN we will have to ban you, so please don't do that. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you think someone having a Slavic last name means their gender necessarily matches the gender suggested by the form of their name, you are just mistaken.

I have a Slavic last name. I also have female relatives whose last name is, quite officially, the male-suffixed version of mine. I invite you to guess how that might have happened.

You opened this thread by lecturing others on the pronouns they used for the article author with no standing to do so. Who are you and why are you more authoritative on the author's pronouns than the person you attempted to correct?

I actually appreciate when people default to neutral when they otherwise don't know. They tend to use he/him if they don't, and that's incorrect.

This unasked for anti-activism is very unhelpful. You are indistinguishable from people who refuse to use correct pronouns even when they know. You do not speak for me.

To be clear, I never forced you to do anything. You just got angry at me.