Pater / Mater?

In the last few decades feminist theologians have been busy reimagining God in female terms. For them, masculine language denotes power, aggression, and oppression of women. So God has been renamed goddess, womb, mother and the like, for to speak of God the Father is hateful and oppressive.

Robert Letham, Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Union School of Theology. Minister in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales