Originally Posted by Бармалей
Well, based on my crummy Russian expertise, Russian is just as "sexist" if you want to argue that garbage. You will always use кто-то + masc. verb -- with the -и it's plural and that doesn't work AFAIK. Now, on the other hand, if you're a big fan of animals THEY also take кто and not что -- the family pet, just like a gorilla at the zoo will take кто in a situation where you need an interogative pronoun for them (Мое любимое животное -- тот олен, кто был в фильме Бамби).