Think you’d need something more sophisticated to do it properly. It might actually be intractable to do this (limiting to just man/woman and she/he replacement) in a way they introduces no false positives.
On that note these sorts of bots should be opt-in not opt-out.
Note that "man page" is an abbreviation of "manual," which etymologically derives from 'manus' (Latin for "hand") and "al" (roughly, "pertaining to"). Arguendo, one could object to 'manual' being the de facto implementation as it is gendered male. Manumal could be a workable neuter representation, but "man page" avoids the Latin gender preference altogether.
The question isn’t whether the bot in OP is good, it’s not, it’s whether or not switching to gender neutral language is useful or not.
Fascinatingly enough w.r.t driving nearly 80 percent of drivers were men in the 60s (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15389588.2012.7...).
You see similar things where she is used as the “gender neutral” pronoun for situations in which a woman was historically over represented
So my point was that "irrespective of the inherent goodness of gender neutral language, this bot is flawed" which was neither implied nor inferred by your original submission, but which is relevant to the discussion of both gender neutral language's adoption and also but more specifically to this submission.
That said, I believe your original comment was just `Is switching to gender neutral pronouns bad?`
Yes, it is bad (and of course that's not the only thing the bot is doing). Many of us find this kind of manipulative browbeating distasteful.
Saussure would absolutely be on the side of questioning our use of language because the effects it has, he is probably the biggest early intellectual source for these discussions.
Saussure would laugh quite a bit at everyone's extreme defensiveness in this thread. So many people scared of losing their signifieds that never really existed in the first place. Consider precisely what everyone is so angry about, such that GP is being downvoted so much, it is a faith in a ground that is only a illusion, at the cost of discussions and progress that only aspire to help people. Sad!
"So many people scared of losing their signifieds"
Are you saying that someone is about to steal my computer?
Also more historically: structuralism is very much the intellectual tradition from which this kind of discourse ultimately comes from, whether you like it or not. And Saussure is widely considered the "founder" of it.
People arent trying to steal your computer, but people on here are very worried about someone stealing their manhood or whatever, and that is silly.
It's also unclear if it's an April Fool's joke, or a glib protest at gender neutral language initiatives, or if it's just a well-intentioned bot with a poor implementation.
I don’t remember if it was automated PRs lime this though, or if it was copy/paste PR templates with real people submitting them.