If Allah is neither "He" nor "She", why is it so important to call Him "He"?

Question

The question Is "Allah" a he or she? points out that referring to Allah as "he" is a language matter

...unlike English, the Arabic male pronoun does not imply gender. English, quite frankly, does not have an appropriate pronoun that fully encompasses this. -- goldPseudo ♦

(See also Is Allah a male or a female?.) This made me think that it wasn't such a big deal referring to Allah as "He", since it's just an arbitrary convention.

However, one can find fatawa which are against referring to Allah using the female pronoun "She". In an extremely strong tone, Islam Q&A write:

Hence you will find that most of those who believe that there is a God above the heavens refer to Him in the masculine, which is more befitting to Him, may He be glorified. This is something natural that does not need any research, examination or evidence. ... If anyone were to refer to Him in the feminine, as this poor girl said, he would be opposed and accused of ignorance and clear misguidance.

At the risk of requesting research, examination, or evidence...

Question: If Allah is neither "He" nor "She", why is it so important to call Him "He"?

The Islam Q&A fatwa's tone is so strong, they basically describe this as kufr. However, aside from a "proof by intimidation", they don't seem to provide substance to their claim (particularly for a claim phrased so strongly).

It's possible the answer basically boils down to this part of the Islam Q&A fatwa:

Imam at-Tabari (may Allah have mercy on him) said: ... the feminine of any thing is inferior ...

and

Shaykh Ibn Sa‘di (may Allah have mercy on him) said: ... If the names are feminine and inferior, that may point to some inferiority in the thing that is thus named ...

If it's the case that we can't refer to Allah as "She" because femininity is perceived as inferior, this question becomes one of confirmation.

Answer 1

In islam, we use هي when speaking of the sun even though we all obviously know the sun is not a living animal who can be male or female. Simply, everything in arabic needs to be referred with either هي or هو. Allah spoke of himself with the pronoun هو and also spoke of himself with the pronoune نحن (we, more precisely the royal we). We don't have a third pronoun for what or who is unrelated to gender. Moreover, it is stated in the quran that Allah is the one who created us as either male or female. Consequence ? Allah is more supreme than to consider him male or female. He is the creator of males and females. French also calls things with either "il" or "elle". There must be one pronoun for it.

Just try to avoid the question, it's related to linguistics and how arabic works, and it will boggle your brain to consider it. If it does boggle your brain just remember, the Quran is sent in arabic not english, and arabic is the way you see it is, so Allah must be mentioned with the pronoun هو if you're going to use a pronoun because that is how he called himself in the Quran.

Answer 2

To avoid any confusion, kindly first read my answer about Is Allah not omnipresent?.

Having that said, I concluded that Allah is not like us. Though we still have a similarity with Allah. Only in the names ie we both exist (حی), we both have knowledge (عالم), we both hear and see, we are both kind (جواد), etc. But does Allah exist in the same way we do? No! Does Allah have knowledge the same way we do? No! Does Allah hear and see the same way we do? No!...

We only share the names...so we can better communicate with Allah. Period. Nothing more. Allah is:

شی بخلاف الاشیاء

A thing unalike others

But in essence our knowledge is different from Allah's. It's not like his just has 100000X more. It's essentially different.

When we say Allah is "He". It's only because we can communicate better with him. It's not because of that in essence he's a male or has gender. Only that masculine is stronger.

If we were to not use the same names then we would be more dumbfounded than we currently are. Basically every attribute (قادر، عالم، حی، بصیر، ...) needs to be adjusted with "But not like us...how? We don't know. He's God!" :D.