Also, it helps to read the translation because I was halfway through before realizing they meant ie l'autrice vs l'auteur.

Which is making me think about english... I've seen a push to always use "actor" instead of "actress", but because "actress" was considered lesser-than.

So is it worse from a feminist perspective to use the masculine as default (something causing me great consternation in my personal life) or to separate based on gender (which then gets into where you put nonbinary folx)