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Author: Sackett

Jan 31st 2013 at 6:49:56 AM

^ Agreed. Also see FourElementEnsemble. Plus most of the things discussed here are not accurate at all.

You can't identify fire as male because of the female FieryRedhead.
Water does seem to be usually female, but ice is actually pretty evenly divided.
Earth is commonly male, but there are iconic female characters as well.
Wind is also completely mixed.

Maybe a better page would be something that talks about the gender of the four elements, and point out that lots of fiction does not assign gender to elements, but that when it does it usually breaks down:

Male: Fire/Earth

Female: Wind/Water

Of course some fiction mixes it up.

Only allow examples that explicitly assign elements to genders, not any person who happens to have a gender and an element.

WheelOfTime would be an example:  Men are strongest in Earth and Fire. Women are strongest in Wind and Water.

TheLastAirbender would not be an example.  Both genders are distributed evenly across the four elements.  The fact that Kitara happens to be female and a waterbender does not mean this trope is in play.