Comment by matthewmacleod

It's not really that important, no. It's totally legitimate – though you might not agree – to make the argument that male pronouns being used for people of unknown gender is anachronistic. In that case, use of a gender-neutral pronoun seems like a reasonable evolution of English which takes into account modern sensitivity to gender issues.

This, of course, assumes that you're not of the trivially ridiculous belief that language should never evolve.