Well, it makes me bristle every time I see it, too. Especially if I've been silly and started with the plots, gone eeeeee that one that one that one! and then read through the rules and gone awwwwww but I can totally play a male just fine! 

I just never cared to take it further than an internal tooth grinding moment before moving on because moving on is much faster and I have so many other plots and stories that haven't gone anywhere to cry over that I just can't find the energy to take it up with an actual person who might talk back at me as opposed to all my vanished partners.... Somehow, this makes sense, shush, it does.