Artemis Fowl Gender Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #4

A female. He hadn't expected that. A female, like Juliet, or Mother. (4.89)

Artemis can't think about women as people in themselves without comparing them to Juliet (a sister figure) or his mom (i.e. as women connected to himself). It's a pretty limited scope for understanding women.

Quote #5

"Oh, I've no doubt you would have passed as men during the famine. But by today's standards you're little more than a pack of blouse-wearing weaklings." (5.127)

Here's a tricky one: is Butler actually insulting the dock workers by calling them girls, or is he exploiting their interest in being super masculine by saying something he knows will set them off? Or both?

Quote #6

"A female Recon officer. The test case. Well, I don't think you'll have any problem justifying a tactical situation." (6.160)

What is Cudgeon actually saying here? That the only female officer on the force is worth the same nothing as a bunch of humans to the fairy population? That the Council would be totally cool with killing her as long as they pretended it was unavoidable?