Good for you Spunky,
My male peers may hate me for saying it, but the idea that men are in any way superior to women is pure baloney, perpetuated by males on the sole principle that "might makes right".
And as for Paul, if people want to follow HIM, they should call themselves "Paulists" or "Paulians", and not Christians. Check out all of the passages of Paul that show why Conservatives love him so, at http://www.LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/PaulvsAll. His Epistles have been gold mines of passages to justify slaves when the "Conservative Christians" of the "Bible belt" were in the business of enslaving, terrorising and then discriminating against "negras". Paul's epistles have been gold mines of passages to justify the domination of women by men, and to justify persecuting the Jews, and now to put down and persecute gays. JESUS, on the other hand, had lots of nasty things to say about the "Religious Right" of his day, so infuriating them, that in just three years they were so enraged that they wanted him DEAD, and got what they wanted (at least for a while).
But Jesus DIDN'T put down slaves, or women, or gays. See http://www.LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/feminism on the way Jesus, in contrast to Paul, HONORED women.