Is "He" Considered a Gender Neutral Pronoun?

Here are two riddles: "A man is walking down the street one day when he suddenly recognizes an old friend whom he had not seen in years walking in his direction with a little girl.They greet each other warmly and the fr iend says, 'I married since I last saw you, to someone you never met, and this is my daughter, Ellen.'The man says to Ellen, 'You look just like your mother.'How did he know that?itA boy and his father were dr i ving when suddenly a large truck careened around a corner and hit their car head-on.The car was crushed, and when their bodies were removed from the wreck the father was already dead.The son, badly injured but still alive, was rushed to the hospital, where hasty preparations were made for immediate surgery.As the boy was brought in for the operation, the surgeon saw him and said, 'I can't operate, that's my son.' How is that possible?"(Moulton, 1981, pp.100-101).Sexist language has only recently become an issue.until the mid Seventies that people, mostly women, together to protest against sexist language.