Cont.

What about "Feed my sheep", or "I am the good shepherd." And certainly Christ was aware of his impending death, which He chose to sacrifice for us.

What is this about?  Women can and do feed sheep and are able to do all that priests and shepherds do symbolically and physically and sacramentally so I don't know what this blurb is about.  

Actually, shepherds are one of the few trades that both men and women always did equally even back to the most ancient times.  Zippora, Moses' wife was a shepherd and that is how she met Moses at the well and so was Rachel the wife of Jacob when he met her.

I don't believe this is a coincidence either that Christ seeks to equate his works to a humble shepherd, something he knows the culture realizes both men and women take part in.