If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.
I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.
The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky.
For some people, pronouns are a very important part of how they identify. I completely understand that. For me, I have more of a looser interpretation.
My name is Rain Dove, and my pronouns are just a sound. You can use whatever you want.
You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.
In a perfect world, in my opinion, 'they,' 'them,' and 'theirs' would be the pronouns that everyone would use.
Use she, he, it, one, they. You could call me mow mow, and I honestly don't care. A pronoun is just a sound. All I'm listening for in that sound is positivity.
Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided - after weeks or months or sometimes years - that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at last feeling comfortable with vous and all the plurals that go with it, you are thrust headlong in to the singular world of tu.
I see the wielding of a pronoun as something that can be freeing for some members of society but a shackle to others like myself.
What 'Billions' does so brilliantly is they just make it a non-issue. Damien Lewis' character says, 'Those are the pronouns you use? Great, let's get down to business. How can you make me money?'
... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head.
Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error.
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'
I find that, often, when I tell people what pronoun I use, I don't get a lot of backlash. I'm really lucky in that respect.
