Now having said that:
Even looking at scripture like this can cause problems.
There are many colored glasses we can put on and through them view the Bible. The worst kind of glasses and the hardest to avoid are cultural. We wear them without knowing and view everything through their misty fog.
The Bible does have a clear focus and a very clear filter through which to view old and new testaments, Jesus. He is the central focus, the key player, the flavour, the lead character, everything written in it points to him and is about him, nothing makes sense without him and everything falls into place with him in central view.
And here’s the point, I find my place not when I search scripture to discover what it says about me or my particular issue but when I allow the truth about Jesus to consume me. The passion of scripture is to glorify Jesus.
When I come to Jesus I come as one ‘poor in spirit’, my own preferences and opinions become subject to his. It’s not that I become a faceless clone, unthinkingly being shuffled along, but I do become the man or woman God intended when He is central, when His glory is paramount and when my will is subject to His.
If you approach the Bible with a feminist ethic, or for that matter any ethic other than a biblical one, there will be trouble. We’ll begin to look at the nature of that trouble next time.