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It's not sexism. Your brain naturally attributes probability from things it has seen in the past. The natural remedy of OPs sort is dominated by female sex so your brain just makes natural connection because it wants to be efficient in it's world building process.
Sexism is when you don't self reflect on initial thoughts that you do not control and pursue these notions further in thoughts you control or simply refuse this dichotomy all together if you're a wilful idiot powere by trauma.
That is sexism though because there us no rational reason to believe this individual is a woman just because most of the time it has been a woman doing this in the past.
What you have done is explain why casual sexism exists and why it continues to exist. I don’t think it is bad to have these thoughts as long as you recognize them for their irrational nature and respond accordingly.
I think you're missing the difference between sexism (or any ism for that matter) with human bias.
There's a point in every enlightened person's life when they wake up and realize "Everyone, INCLUDING ME, have ingrained biases developed from years of past experiences." It's not good, and we try to recognize it when it happens so that we can improve as humans. But at no point does that become "sexism"; it just human nature and one that we have to be on the lookout for in ourselves.
What becomes sexism (or any ism for that matter ^save Ferris^ ) is when that bias becomes purposeful and targeted. It's not a bias anymore, it's been taken and turned into a weapon.
In other words, please lighten up. Running around calling everyone evil sexist nazis because they have a harmless bias is the reason that we end up with reactionary groups like Incels and MAGA.
Harmless bias LOL. No, sexism does not have to be at all intentional, it's baked into society and culture, it's still harmful even if you don't declare you're a sexist or even know it for that matter.