History Headscratchers / ArtemisFowl

** There's a reference to them holding a referendum (on the issue of removing one of the more inconvenient hexes Frond put on all The People way back when) in The Time Paradox. The sexism I think is AuthorTract; several of the female fairies are clearly wronged by sexist attitudes: Opal wouldn't be nearly so bad if her father hadn't expected her to get an MRS degree instead of doing what she loved, Holly is told outright she has to be ''better'' than the guys to keep her job, while [[TheChick Lili Frond]] gets special treatment but isn't taken seriously.

*** That always bugged me too, but chalk it up to the whole "no sex in a kid's book" thing. Though there was that [[RelationshipWritingFumble highly awkward]] bit in the fifth book about hormones, but still, not ''breeding''.

** Dwarves are stated as natural kleptomaniacs, goblins are stupid and predisposed to crime and violence, demons make slaughterhouses look like PETA headquarters and I can't remember reading about a single half-competent gnome in the whole eight books. It seem to me like a case of CantArgueWithElves. Even more, Artemis is in later books considered by Holly a friend and an escentially good person, yet we, the ''human'' audience, still consider him morally ambiguous, let that sink in for a minute. Humans ins general still consider thing like peace, harmony and carnig for the environement as positive thing that we should seek, yes there are human groups that like war (like demons do) or crime (like goblins), humans do have less than ideal governement that make questionable choices (like the Council) and figures of authorithy that are pretty amoral (like Ark Sool) and go straigth to violence and firepower to solve any problem, even enlisting others and making them violent too (Like Cudgeon and Abbot), let's not forget the odd CorruptCorporateExecutive willing to go to any lenghts to achieve their goals(Like Opal). Humans do have a lot more criminals and bad people than fairies (mainly because we outnumber them roughly 35000:1) and we do pollute more than them. Then again I don't remember ever seeing Holly take quick showers or separating garbage (although that would be pretty boring). the People are less polluting not because they make a daily conscious effort to protect the Earth, but on account of having supertechnology that is not only cleaner, it is also cheaper, more efficient and more accessible than polluting technology, do they think humans would keep polluting the air with oil based engines if they could get their hands in some of those microscopic nuclear super lasting batteries? It seems to me that fairies simply gathered in the old days because of their small numbers and declared an "Us vs Them" on humans, then simply projected an AlwaysChaoticEvil image on us.

** It wasn't neccesarily ''real'' champagne. Artemis took charge of the bottle, after all, who's to say he didn't change the contents earlier? Saying "Let's celebrate with water!" would have been a bit obvious, and Butler and Juliet didn't really have time to react after drinking it.