Would describing God as FEMALE in the bible make the bible FEMINIST?

Mark L. Straus (discussing the choice to use gender-accurate language in the TNIV translation) on the NIV website wrote: “This kind of gender-related language has nothing to do with Godlanguage. None of these versions introduce feminine language for God or eliminate masculine terms used for God in the Bible. They introduce inclusive language only with reference to human beings and only when the original author intended to include both sexes. These are not “feminist” versions of the Bible.”

Yup: my response:

1.      Apparantly a feminist version of the bible would be so bad. [If the feminist movement hadn’t begun, when would translations of the bible have started using gender-accurate/gender-inclusive language?] Also, definition of feminism = working for a gender-equal world (including gender-equal representation in the world). Where is this out of joint with Christianity?

2.      Apparantly it is okay to continue exclusively portraying God as more ‘male’ than ‘female’, and to do otherwise would be sacrilege. Funny. I always thought God was genderless.

If God is genderless s/he is as much female and mother as s/he is male and father. If so, we are missing an important part of the identity of God when we continue portraying God as exclusively male. It’s funny that these translators (almost all are male) can’t even fathom the thought of portraying God as female occassionally – you know, for a change. They could write God as female in alternative chapters/books in the bible, and God as male in the remaining chapters or books. This would accurately reflect that God is as much female and mother, as s/he is male and father. [But nooooo, say these bible translators, we can't have that... that would be too feminist, that would].