Speaking about assuming things about people, don’t assume everyone is an English native. In some other languages there is no gender-neutral equivalent and instead the normal and expected way to address a stranger is by using male pronouns. Reacting aggressively instead of just politely correcting someone is the difference between making someone have a positive or a negative opinion on a given topic.
Nothing on the news aggregator I use for Romania. News mostly covering the end of the teacher’s strike and Berlusconi’s death so little chance for something like this to be covered anyway. While it has been used by mainstream media to create news with posts leading to small news pieces, it generally isn’t known by your average Joe.