>>52949973Reminder that pronouns are literally the stupidest words in a language. Pronouns literally exist so that nouns will not be repeated too much. They exist because some languages always require some parts of speech in a clause even if it was already mentioned. Pronouns are filler words. "Pronoun" literally means "instead of a noun." Pronouns have no content of their own, they're just grammatical nonsense.
English has male and female pronouns not because they describe the people in question but because it's a feature of Indo-European languages to have gendered nouns, and to have the pronouns reflect that so that it's easier to identify what is being recalled by them. At the earlier stages Proto-Indo-European itself made only a difference between animate and inanimate which was even more grammatically based, until the animate split into male and female and the inanimate was reframed as neuter as a result.