From The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser:
While fundamentalist evangelical Christians are outraged over the notion that their God might be a woman (because, God forbid, complementarianism, y’all), they are focusing more on “God is a woman” than on a woman communicating her desires to her partner and promising to fulfill the partner’s desires in return. They are focusing on the outrage that their deity may be portrayed as a woman, someone who is commanded in the Pauline epistles to submit to the husband’s authority and to remain silent in church. They aren’t focusing on Ariana Grande’s encouragement of women to communicate with their partners as equals.
From my perspective, if some Evangelical teenagers listen to this song, I hope that the message of equality gets through to them.
This is one of those issues that really highlights how ridiculous the beliefs of this brand of Christian really are. They expect us to accept that a non-human, non-physical, all-powerful deity is limited by a Y chromosome or a beard or only traditionally masculine qualities — depending on what they mean by the forever vague “man.” And they expect us to take them seriously when they’re arguing against a pop music video that isn’t even about religion. It’s all a joke until I remember that these people have influence in our government.