@TheKingOfRhye #227095
There’s so many examples of this that there’s a TV trope for it.
Quoting that article…
When a woman reigns, or otherwise holds some position of power or importance, she may do so with a masculine title and all of the authority that goes with it, instead of using the title's feminine equivalent. The most common version of this takes the trope name literally (a female monarch titled as "King" instead of "Queen"), but there are many other gender-specific titles that can be used instead.
This might be because:
- The ruler in question is actually a woman disguised as a man.
- The ruler is openly a woman, but still has a masculine title. This can be for any number of reasons, such as:
- The woman rules under the outright legal fiction that she is a man.
- The laws that say a queen can't rule fail to specify that a king must be male. This is usually done as a way to get out of a Succession Crisis.
- The title is masculine, regardless of who has it.
- The nation crowning the woman king wants to make it clear that she rules in her own right rather than as consort.
- The woman is masculine, and the title of "King" denotes masculinity rather than being male.
- The woman simply prefers the masculine title to the feminine one and insists on using it.
- Women are not usually allowed to rule, so this one uses the masculine title to be clear about her authority.
- In a translated work, the original title is gender-neutral but it is represented by a masculine term in translation because of gender assumptions on the part of the translator.
Just gender invert all of that for this situation.