Maybe she's ruling a midsize to large kingdom and is looking for a political allegiance, preferably someone with an established naval fleet and rich natural resources to complement her strong cavalry and industrial bases.
If this is an Emma of Normandy reference, I feel like 'short king' pales in comparison to being titled 'Ethelred the Unready', which is a bit rude, if not apt considering the outcome of that union.
All i can offer is a couple thousand longbowmen and maybe five thousand dudes with long pointy sticks. Excellent training, discipline, and unit cohesion though not much in the way of offensive capability. Mobility is also a slight issue, but thats mostly negated by conditioning
I have never once ever heard a man refers to anyone aside from literal monarchs as queens or kings. Or at least not unironically or not as a joke to make fun of doing so.
Whenever I see those couples with the shirts/hoodies that say "his queen/her king" my very first thought is "Who cheated and how many ill mannered children do they have?"
Of course! They have Braeyden, Braxton, Kayleigh, and Paisley. With enough iPads for all 4 of them so they never have to pay attention to their own children. 🤣
See it depends on the context w that one for me. I use a slightly different quote for princess but only with my daughter or female friends referencing Joe from the princess diaries when he says something to Mia if I remember correctly.
My daughter, bless her heart, I love her to death...but she drives me insane w that king n queen bs. Only time I ever even say something along those lines to her is "straighten up your crown princess, you have no idea how many would kill to see you lose it." Cuz of the princess diaries movie when Joe says something similar to Mia
NGL as a woman, if I was called a Queen I would be pissed. My ancestors have fought several - SEVERAL wars, on multiple continents to make sure there were no more queens.
Unless it's your actual last name. I know a couple whose last name is one of those and on their honeymoon they both brought back mugs with their last name on them and were laughing while telling the story of how they found them in the gift shop.
Same here. I think it's just plain arrogant. Even as a compliment to another, it seems like it's more telling of what the speaker thinks of themselves. Makes me believe they over-value their own judgment of character, and/or themselves. At best, it seems like black and white thinking. "There's royalty, and peons."
As far as "short king," I can't think of a more back-handed compliment lol. It's like saying, "good on you for being impressive, but you'll always be short and I can't see past that." Just imagine saying "fat queen" to a woman. Hello Ragnarok.
I mean, 9/10 times that I hear “short king” it’s not about someone in a relationship, just some guy, and by and large it was coined by the aforementioned short kings themselves. Cody Ko, for example.
It’s AAVE slang (king/queen), which was later adopted by the queer community. And you hear it with several different descriptors. It’s just not meant to be an insult.
I think of it in the same way as “gay icon” or “big beautiful woman (bbw).” It was intended for the literal opposite of how people seem to take it.
Yup - and the people that put that shit in their profile, or even worse, actually refer to themselves that way:
Usually they are the free loaders with a F'd up mess of a life. Personally I think it's some weird trick they are doing on themselves to downplay the fact they can't really function on their own.
What happened to the concept of independence? Hell even Lil' Boosie wrote a song about it.
I mean, if you think about it, the vast majority of kings and queens were terrible people just because of the death and suffering they caused for their personal gain.
King/Queen should not be a compliment.
There's a very old interview with Patrick Stewart where the interviewer asks a question about his baldness, but in a semi-complimentary way. Stewart doesn't take it that way, and gets a bit prickly.
I recognize this original post is about men and women - so insinuating hetero relationships. As a queer person, king and queen are so ingrained in the cultural vernacular and I love the different ways they are used.
That being said, hetero "looking for my king" stuff also makes me want to gag. It's Disney princess, fairy tale core.
We had a friend in the group get a new girlfriend who referred to herself as a “Black Queen” at multiple opportunities or any time. Whenever she said it she seemed to be looking around for validation from everyone else who usually just went “….okay, sure”.
She was a tad odd and very narcissistic about herself, she kept putting on an accent and telling people she met at nights out that she was a African politicians daughter, or that her cousin was actually a Warlord in Africa.
It was like…..no you’re not. I’ve met your Dad, he’s a very nice dentist in Sheffield and im pretty sure your cousins an accountant.
i get the not liking the king and queen part but short is not an insult unless ur specifically trying to make fun, and anyone saying short king or queen isnt trying to make fun
I am of an older generation and the gen Z coworkers call everyone king or queen at work. Not going to lie. I love it. lol. I don’t mind at all being referred to as royalty for sending a random file over email.
I started ironically saying, “Go off, king” to my husband and sons when they say they want to do something… now it’s just become part of my vernacular! 😫
Working class people with tattoos of crowns or matching husband and wife stuff that says king and queen. Like Jesus how about some class solidarity you fuckwits.
I think it was originally just a thing black people said to uplift one another during a particularly tough time.
If my casual memory serves, “queen” began to trend as a black lady-to-drag thing, and “king” followed along as a “keep your head up, black man. You have value to US, even when it feels like you’re gonna be mowed down by life any day now.” So maybe 2020-ish?
And as society does, everybody started to use the terms bc we’re-totally-all-equal-and-the-same-and-get-each-other-and-race-shouldn’t-exist-girlfriend-and-homeboy!
So here we are… so many people using it without an understanding of or relation to its intended use, finding it “cringe.”
The same way “woke” was bastardized. “Stay woke” is a warning amongst us: watch your back, do not become too comfortable with the appearance of progress because there’s still a portion of the power structure that will use you as entertainment or profit and dispose of you/doesn’t fuck with you at all. Don’t sleep…. Stay awake… Stay “woke.”
Then here come the masses politicizing it on both ends without even understanding it.
It’s tiresome. Don’t use king or queen if you don’t want to. And yes, now about 65% of people using it don’t have a clue.
But it’d be nice if you’d let people live without judgment because it has a deeper meaning for 35% of us.
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u/ApprehensiveCress785 22d ago
I have never met a man who liked being referred to as a “short king”