Meanwhile in Edinburgh

@weaniejeanie53 that's good although if they don't want to disturb the owl they won't have sex checked them.

A female owl may be more likely to adopt an obscure home if she is brooding owlets. Why does management always refer to "He" ?

@Kay @weaniejeanie53

Why not?

It's a *very* long-standing convention (which began in British jurisprudence) that in the absence of specific information as to sex, references to "he" can be construed to include "she".

It's just a traditional shorthand, nothing more.

@keithreeder @Kay yes I tend to do it if I don’t know the gender of an animal apart from with cats who I tend to assume are female.
@weaniejeanie53 @keithreeder misgendering people, animals and other entities annoys me. Like the Godzilla movies where they refer to Godzilla as He, even after finding the eggs She has laid

@Kay @weaniejeanie53

Needless overreaction and perpetual victimhood annoy me.

Life, eh?

@Kay @weaniejeanie53

" Like the Godzilla movies where they refer to Godzilla as He, even after finding the eggs She has laid"

The WHOLE - AND VERY CLEAR - POINT of that was to emphasise the "otherness" (specifically the asexual/hermaphroditic reproduction) of the creature - do YOU know he's not laying clones?

Not to mention the wantonly violent city-trashing - a pretty "alpha male" way to behave.

Get a bloody grip, and stop wasting your life away looking for things to be offended by.