text: You know you are lucky when:
  
  1. you live in a country where people debate whether to legally mandate the proper use of pronouns and other details of language use, rather than whether you should be stoned, hung, or just flogged
  
  2. your language is one of those that has the fewest gender markers in the first place, and not one in which gender forms the very backbone of the language. 
  
  Many languages have not just pronouns, but adjectives, articles, and even verb forms  change depending on gender.