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It's pretty common in many languages to assign the masculine form as a default form. For instance, the male assignment can be for all of the following: someone male, a group of mixed gender things, and things which the gender is unknown/unspecified. Using the male in those last two cases doesn't really mean to say that the subjects are male, but rather the male has interchangeable meaning depending on the context.
Edit: a letter.
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