> And the history of why we do that has some none-too-egalitarian reasons behind it. Nope, the gender of ships and countries an arbitrary fluke of language and

> And the history of why we do that has some none-too-egalitarian reasons behind it. Nope, the gender of ships and countries an arbitrary fluke of language and culture. In English ships are female but in Russian ships are male. Russians speak of the Motherland, but German speakers use Fatherland. Americans speak of Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty. It's arbitrary and nothing to get worked up about.