@georgia @k because i don't actually believe femininity (or gender) is divine, i think it's a cultural construct which i'm rather allergic to reifying

wrt Mary: bc i think it's kinda weird to define Mary by femininity. i love Mary for many things: for the deep sense of justice expressed in the Magnificat, for the humility of "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word," for having received the highest of all vocations as the bearer of God, for having been the human model of love which Chriㅤst was raised with, for the deep mourning she had at the foot of the Cross. some of those relate to her being a woman but they don't come out of her modeling "divine femininity" imo, they come out of an exceptionally perfect humanity

wrt the Spirit: again, i think Godhead is inherently unparseable in terms of gender bc gender is not an adequate framework with which to talk about God. i do have some sympathy for referring to the Spirit as "she" or with feminine imagery, but that's not a claim as to essence, it's because gender is no impediment to God and (in the former case) bc i see no impediment. i would just as happily use feminine imagery for the Father or the Son, because they are one God and God will be what God will be, though the Son incarnated as a man and referred to the Father as Father so i take those as authoritative