If I tell you about my son's fears, or that he's affectionate, I also want you to know he kicks butt on the soccer field and in Taekwondo. Furthermore, I admit that when I was nine, and for years to follow, I believed it was better to be a boy. I realize if we believe boys and girls are different from each other, that doesn't mean masculinity is better. Biology tells us in the absence of a Y chromosome and androgens the fetus continues its development along a pattern which eventually emerges as female. My son thinks God is obviously male, that my idea of a female God is weird.
Male divinity permeates much of church language.
Even now, it's hard for me to imagine God is female. Before my son started kindergarten, he firmly believed God was female. He had never been told otherwise.