Aseratrix For me the favourite pics have to be 4, 9, 5 and 1 in this order, but I agree the 4th wouldn't work too well as an avater as probably the feet would be cropped out. 1 reminds of Kaileena the Empress of Time, a character from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. (a game from some 12-13 years ago) She's a dual-wielding immortal being with time magic who rules over a mystical island of time and a pretty dominant badass. Also, when it comes to the swastika, I too missed it the first 2 times I saw the picture, and I really have no excuse given I just came back from watching an episode of "The Man in the High Castle", which is just full of nazi uniforms everywhere!

To be fair I told it's at least an SS-inspired uniform based on the Reichsadler and skull on the hat, but damn that symbol is easy to miss!
"A submissive woman can be assertive and demand you do things to her, but that doesn't make her sexually dominant which is the only minimal requirement for her to be a female dominant."
In this sentence of mine there is an obvious, pre-fetish condition: a female who is sexually dominant will not ask you to do things which expresses dominance from your part. This term, "expresses" is very important. You can't have a power dynamic without an expression of it, just like ideas need symbols or words to exist.
Many subs - lets be honest - are tempted to manipulate or demand a partner to satisfy our specific kinks, the best way I heard this put by a dominant woman is, that in this case we are talking about a "service-dom", aka domination as a service <- in this case the male is only after satisfying kinks but he is not fundamentally submissive, and the woman may not even be dominant, just a service provider in exchange for money for example. While a real-life, sexually dominant woman would not be interested to just service the kinks of someone, she may use them as rewards instead if it agrees with her. So, this point is really quite the opposite of fetish-driven, but also recognizes that the type of actions [not just nameable fetishes] have an inherent top or bottom quality to them. Just think about it, if someone asks you to slap her, and you do, what really happened in that scenario? What worries me is, that by not recognizing the inherently passive/submissive nature of the demanded act itself, can basically flip the power-dynamics itself on its head. Just imagine a sarcastic game which would declare that its femdom, only for you to realize that you are beating, slapping, face-fucking and whipping females in it, because "they asked for it", so its femdom...is it really? It would be ridiculous to say so in my opinion. The premised power-dynamics would be completely abolished and turned against itself by the actions which are supposed to express said power-dynamics.
I think I largely agree with this - I can understand how for someone who is mainly into maledom the female sub manipulating a sexual interaction with a dom and/or demanding things could feel not-maledom-enough, but I agree that viewing any such thing as femdom is probably something she does out of personal preference. (and she likely just rationalized it later with the "power-dynamic" logic)
Subs can be demanding, as you've outlined in the service-dom example, and even though I'd argue any narrative with a very demanding sub will always present dilluted femdom/maledom, how the domination is expressed, rather than who it is demanded or influenced by, is a far better criterion to tell which kind of domination it is and who is doing it. To be fair I actually argued against this point of hers most of the time when we talked, and I made somewhat similar points to the ones above, but damn I wish I could've come up with an example as good as the "sarcastic femdom game" to highlight the shortcomings of her perception of femdom! That one's a brilliant counterpoint and I'm stealing it from you!
"In terms of fetishes femdom is literally endless, since there are many unique ways of expressing and receiving dominance, or how others have conceptualized it: power-exchange."
Sure almost - with an emphasis on almost any activity - can be done in dynamic circumstances which transform it into a dominant or a submissive act. For example if a female is tied up and receives cunnilingus, she may be interpreted to be in a passive, submissive position. This is why I once said to Ianuda, when he said that cunnilingus is the inherent femdom expression, that that's not true, it depends how that cunnilingus is received, demanded and performed, because by itself its part of regular vanilla sex. It is the intentions, the positioning, the verbal and circumstantial constraints which can transform cunnilingus into a form of femdom worship or a form of expression of female power by extracting pleasure from you as a service to her....
Anyhow, it was an interesting dialogue.
With regards to this point, I think we're actually all in agreement. Ultimately, the circumstances in which almost any sexual act is received, demanded and performed can heavily swing the balance of power one way or the other, and this holds true for blowjobs, cunnilingus and a whole slew of other kinks.
Interesting. But asking a sub female about femdom is kinda ambiguous, I think, everybody is trying to match things to their taste.
Just to clarify things a bit, I never went into that conversation trying to get a submissive straight woman to alter my perception of femdom - I merely found it interesting how she would focus on completely different elements of a sexual act than the ones I would look at to decide whether it's purely maledom/femdom. And that in turn made me think that while the chasm in our perception of female domination is certainly narrower, ("our" here refers to all people who like femdom) ultimately all humans have a partly-subjective view of concepts, ideas and actions, so in some cases what's submissive to most will be dominant or won't matter to others, ergo I do not think you, or anyone for that matter, can objectively define femdom in a way that's satisfactory to all femdom lovers. And that's fine - they'll still all appreciate the hard work you put into compilling this huge list even if they have slight disagreements with your definition, as there's bound to be at least something in there for everyone!
Good luck with settling on the avatar and, as always, it was a pleasure catching up with you!