Its

The Americans sometimes refer to their country in the feminine just like we often do for boats and ships.

Her bow not it’s prow.

I wonder if this has to do with the statue of liberty being the symbol of the country. Or maybe that God is the father and the state the mother. Or possibly it’s a habit borrowed from the French who give just about everything a sexually definitive status; no wonder they all need counseling.

Here in secular Australia the country is very much an ‘it’. As is the state and as are the states. Even our politicians are bordering on ‘its’.

It’s a mystery of its, it is.