Fairy or Sparrow Man: Gender in Pixie Hallow

In Pixie Hallow, there are 2 gender options for players. Fairy is the female option. Sparrow Man is the male option. Fairies are small, dainty, and fly faster. Sparrow Men are taller, bulkier, and rigid. Fairies are able to be posed by their human player into all sorts of cute and obvious feminine positions. Sparrow Men cannot be posed. These avatars stay rigid in a militaristic up right pose. The only position other than the “fly” position is a “sit” position. This position is available to every Fairy and Sparrow Man.

Gender in Pixie Hallow is best expressed through the avatar clothing. Fairies or the females wear skirts, pointy toed shoes, and accessories. Fairies can go into Sparrow Men shops but cannot buy anything. Sparrow Men can go into the Fairy shops but cannot buy anything either.
Clothing color is another indicator of gender in Pixie Hallow. Fairies wear clear “girl” colors- bright colors, pinks, purples, and whites. Sparrow Men wear blacks, reds, browns, and neutral colors. Fairies wear jewelry, head bands, and elaborate talent guild sashes.

Sparrow Men cannot wear these things. Sparrow Men cannot shop in fairy accessory shops. Sparrow Men accessories include hats, glasses and ties. Quite a different selection and regardless of whether or not you have the money to buy them, there are no cross dressing or accessorizing Fairies or Sparrow Men in Pixie Hallow. After an avatar, Fairy or Sparrow Man is introduced into Pixie Hallow their first outfit indicates their gender. Fairies no matter what their talent, wear a white dandelion fluff dress with a talent guild colored sash around their waist. Sparrow Men on the other hand, wear an entirely leafy green outfit with a similar sash around their waist as well. The green and the white colored ensembles clearly distinguish the Sparrow Men from the Fairies.

Fairies are considered the dominant gender in Pixie Hallow. All of the talent guild representatives: Tinkerbell, Rosetta, Fawn, Iradessa, and Silvermist, who are in charge of running quests for players’ avatars, are fairies. These are also the most known fairies. In Pixie Hallow, the supreme ruler is Queen Clarion. There is no king in Pixie Hallow, just Queen Clarion. The highest position a Sparrow Man can hold in Pixie Hallow is as a Minister of a Season. Currently there are 2 Sparrow Men ministers. The ministers of spring and fall are both Sparrow Men. There are some fairly well known Sparrow Men in Pixie Hallow such as Terrence who is a dust-keeping fairy, as well as Clank and Bobble who are both tinker fairies. All of these sparrow men have one thing in common. They are all connected to Tinkerbell. Clank and Bobble work with Tinkerbell in Tinker’s Nook, and Terrence has a well known romantic crush on Tinkerbell. Sparrow Men are not known because of who they are as individuals in Pixie Hallow, they are known by the Fairies they associate with either in their talent guild or romantically.

Question: Do you think that girls who play Pixie Hallow will accept this female dominant society and try to make the real world more or less like it in the future?