Father of three, husband of one.
There are a lot of wonderful metaphors for God in our scriptural tradition aren’t there!
God is like a father, a rock, a warrior, a mother hen, a fortress, a nursing mother who will not forsake her child, etc.
Yeah, there are wonderful metaphors, of course. (I too went to Seminary.) However I would disagree that gender attributes for El Shaddai are interchangeable, if only because having SINCE seminary been so inculcated with RC drivel that I am no longer going to go a-haring off after a new linguistic and cultural fad when for a very long time the masculine gender has been attributed to God in preference to the feminine.
Please note I said "gender" and not "sex". And bear in mind that I'm old enough (and educated enough, he said modestly) to think of the last 30 years or so of alleged thought as a momentary fad.