The feminine self is the subconscious self.  It is a wild, unmanageable, forceful, disorderly, storehouse of impressions that have been suppressed, repressed, denied, ignored and shut out of our conscious awareness.  Our patriarchal society has demanded it because we can’t have people taken their knowledge from God directly.  And we certainly can’t have people taken their knowledge from Goddess! We train the Inner Authority right out of our children with rules that suppress their creativity and then we put them in schools run by “officials” who cannot (and will not) see the individual potential of each unique being.