Why would a misogynist write this?

It is generally held that religion, and the Bible, is all about keeping women in their place - under the authority of men. It would therefore follow that the men who wrote the Bible would make sure that that was what it said.

Now, if you buy that line, answer me this one. The only place where we see the 'perfect state' of human existence is Genesis 1 and 2. Now, if this was written by a male misogynist, why would he write this:

• 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
• 27 So God created mankind in his own image,
  in the image of God he created them;
  male and female he created them.
• 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Nothing that makes male superior to female, or vice versa. Together, they rule over. Everything that follows the first two chapters is less than the ideal.