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by nandemo 5461 days ago
Right, but that gender-neutral he only works we're talking about a "generic" or hypothetical someone. You cannot use in (say) Facebook or Google+ for a text referring to a female friend.

In English, some people still use they/their in this case. In Portuguese (and I think Spanish and other major Latin languages) you can't do that.