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 Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 12:51 am
...a man to be associated with fairies? Heck, the Greeks believed fairies had a glorious king, not a queen. So I find it odd to say that fairy has to mean "small, delicate, and/or feminine"... especially after Fairly Oddparents with it's depiction of Jorgen von Strangle. 
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 3:52 pm
I think in Shakespeare there are male fairies as well?
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:26 pm
Well, in Shakespeare there was King Oberon and pip, and that's the ones that I can remember from A Midsummer Night's Dream. In folklore, however, you never wanted to run across the fay, since you never knew which fay creature you'd be dealing with, and especially in Celtic mythology, where you had both the Seelie and Unseelie courts, and neither really helped humanity, one was just less nasty with humans than the other.
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:40 pm
*Flutters into the thread out of curiosity.* The realm of Fae includes both genders and have may variations and classifications, both with and without wings. They can be known as fairies, sprites, pixies, brownies, elves and ogres, just to name a few. Most often, Fairies are depicted as being winged females. The male fairy is not uncommon, but appears to be harder to find.
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 2:38 am
People make unintended connections, and/or cultures focus on certain aspects more than others. For instance, how many male fairies do you see on TV or in the movies? People can only work with what they know, and what they assume.
It's be like how asking how "f**", which simply meant a bundle of sticks, came to be slang for homosexual.
EDIT: Scratch that; I can understand exactly how that came about. lol
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:51 pm
rofl rofl rofl I always knew it was a bundle of sticks, but I still didn't make the connection until just now rofl rofl rofl
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