Thank you to those who left comments on this question last week.
Here’s one Quaker’s thoughts…
I’ve always been intrigued by pronouns and their ability to shape our understanding of reality. As a Catholic child, when the priest referred to God as he and him, the image of God as male took root in my mind, where it remained happily lodged for several decades, largely because when God is a male, males will be gods, and what young male couldn’t help but like that.