AFAIK, only ships are referred to as women.  Everything else is gender
neutral.

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, m.w.chang wrote:

> I learnt my english while Hongkong was still a british colony (ok, she's
> called United Kingdoms now). You sure that it's "its" not "her"? Is that
>   how United Nations described other nations?
>
> > And, finally, while I'm ranting, the proper pronoun is "its," not
> > "her." As in, "Then every government can design *its* own security
> > schemes around the kernel."
> >
> > Kurt
>
>

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