I think sometimes men tend to put women on a pedestal because of a lack of emotional male relationships. Male relationships, outside of common interest are always reinforcing survival habits, which contradicts emotional relationships, hence the hazing that goes on in fraternities, or even in the playground when a boy is being taunted for doing something that is girly, the boys are trying to eliminate those tender emotions in favor of making a warrior out of the male, women are reinforced when they are soft and tender, men are not. Unconditional love is what humans seek out of God, unconditional love is much more evident in mother/son, though it's merely perception.
I think if males fall too deep into a warrior culture, we end up putting women on a pedestal because the emotional relationship becomes so restricted to women, but I think it's a failure within certain societies where the males are too hardened or war-like, it's especially brutal if the father is absent because he is the one that sets the example that we're not just simply about survival, which is something that I think reflects in the God/man relationship -- God wants you to survive, but he also wants you to have a REASON to survive, if we're too war-like, we tend to not feel emotions (which prevents us from feeling fear), but if we don't feel emotions, then how can we love? Would you trade an entire lifetime of surviving with no real love for one short moment of intense love, but where you died?
This is why I say survival tends to contradict real emotion, because survival really flourishes when there is a lack of emotion. God is all the qualities of a strict, wise, and disciplined male, with all the ingredients of a tender, wholesome, and kind mother. What you see in women is a mere shadow of what's in God -- it's your duty to keep your eyes open to that belief, because it was never something that was restricted to women. It's definitely the nicest and greatest attribute inside of women, but it's not theirs alone.
What you want out of god, is what you want you of women, but the error is believing that it is restricted to women, which is something that society tends to reinforce, but society is wrong.