There are extremely-low-cost ways to avoid male-gendered-defaults - everything from alternating pronouns to repeating the antecedent to using "they" as a singular. At almost no cost, and with potentially significant upside, it's an easy win. Easy wins are good.
I've just launched WorldviewNaturalism.com, which is intended as a simple "landing page" to be used for introducing your friends to scientific naturalism. Many of the recommended readings linked there are written by LWers. Enjoy.
(This is a very old personal project on which I've spent a few hours per month, and it is not at all associated with the Singularity Institute or the Center for Applied Rationality.)