I think everyone who has posted in this forum can attest to at least one time in which they mistakenly called someone by the wrong gender title. And in those cases, it was most likely because they didn't check the userdetails, even after the M/F was added there. Before, it was even harder since you had to figure out from the titles in their signature, and when you had a system that gave gender neutral titles like Senator or Representative, or neutral council titles, or an unaligned noble, as well as an ambiguous name, you had a fair bit of trouble. The fact remains that not everyone is going to take the time to click on someone's family details. Why? Well, humans really are that lazy, you know. Given the option to glance up at the name's gender, hopefully less people would be so lazy as not to even look at the little sign after the name. That also begs the question of how they even know who they're writing to if they don't even read the name, but that's another matter.
