An aplogy for a pronoun

I’ve always had jobs that required lots of writing.  In my impressionable youth, I was taught to use the general pronoun him to refer to some unnamed third person. In a recent letter to the UTSA Statistics Club, I felt compelled to ‘fess up:

If I practiced Bayesian statistics in
my writing, I’d always use the female pronoun "her" to refer to a
statistics student at UTSA, since women have the majority in the
program.  Alas, I learned to write in the 1960’s, when men were
still macho enough to go to college, get jobs, and actually marry the
mothers of their children.  Bear with me; in a few decades all of
us dinosaurs will be extinct.