Oh contraire. Most women understand this, as do men. There is a natural submissiveness most women have to a man. Even if the woman is very strong in every other way, woman is naturally made to be submissive to her partner, overall. Dominant = superior. Though I did qualify it and say that of course it takes both to have the necessary balance for life to survive and thrive.
I think you are misinterpreting. I think you are confusing passive and active with dominant and submissive. Men are (generally more) yang and women are (generally more) yin, but according to Taoism it is yin which is more fundamental, and considered to be the more powerful. It takes both in a balance, which means balance of power, which means lack of domination. The only reason more yin people would be more "submissive" would be that they are naturally more powerful, and so being more passive would balance the power. Likewise, men are (generally) physically more powerful, so they need to be more considerate to women in this regard in order to balance the power.
If this belief works for you, great. Does it empower you to lead a successful, independent life and attract positive, fulfilling relationships?
Why commit the sin of omission by leaving out the last great Pagan, Hypatia, a woman certainly, and the Librarian of the Great Pagan Library of Alexandria?
Hypatia was not only a great Pagan Librarian but also a great Astronomer who was the first to observe and calculate that the Earth went round the Sun.
We know why you have omitted the last great Pagan, Hypatia, because she would regard tree hugging feminist pagans as fatuous.
And rather than thinking sex is sacred, Hypatia thought sex was a waste of time for anyone with a life of the mind.
I'm sure she was a cool lady, and she was entitled to her beliefs as well.
Purity is not celebrating of femininity?
The concept of sexual purity, meaning not having sex implies that sex is dirty- and if it implies a woman only having sex with one man it is sexist. It is usually not applied to men in the same ways.
Hey that's nice, almost every tradition thinks sex is sacred. Other than the Shakers, I'm not aware of too many religions that don't celebrate sex as part of the divine order of life. Heck an entire book of the Bible, the Songs of Solomon, describes God's love for mankind through the metaphor of the passionate love between a man and women, with plenty of erotic imagery to boot.
I didn't know the Bible had that. That's kind of cool. But then the Bible has all kinds of things and is full of contradictions. You can basically pick out a couple of things to support anything, and then 5 other things to refute it.
Every tradition celebrates it in its own way, and some way more than others.
From my point of view, it is trivial. There are so many other gender issues to be focused on--women and body issues, gender roles, male dominance, slut-shaming, etc. The gender neutrality of deities isn't very relevant in my eyes, especially considering the increasing number of non-religious people in this world.
What I'm bothered by is a problem that I'm not really seeing. I realize that the gender issue you're talking about is more relevant to the thread, but I don't see much of a reason to focus so much on it.
One more thing: I don't focus on it any more than the other things you listed. It's just more relevant to the thread, so I'm talking about it here.