It's true that girls hierarchies tend to change, and a Queen Bee may lose her footing among followers (like Azula did), but an Alpha may lose his footing too. My feeling is that Queen Bees hold a deeper/darker power over the little worker bees 'cause it's less transcribed and more emotional/psychological. You have a way to challenge the male ruler (just defeat him), but how do you 'defeat' a Queen Bee?
Other Queen Bees are hatched. The first Queen out stings her rivals to death... unlike worker bees, the Queen can sting and not die.
If Azula is the is the Queen Bee, Ozai is the Alpha Dog.
The other Queens would disrupt the hive. (Mai seems a hidden Queen, with Ty Lee as the worker bee who is hesitant about which way to swarm) The Alpha Dog, on the other hand, needs strong Betas (Iroh) for his pack even though he knows that the Beta could potentially be a threat. Goes back to the pack mentality that you brought up.
Men seek hierarchy. Women seek domination. Two sides of the same coin. But the animal mind (both bee and dog) must have served humanity at one time, otherwise, we would not as a species continue to display it. More sad then scary, I think.
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Other Queen Bees are hatched. The first Queen out stings her rivals to death... unlike worker bees, the Queen can sting and not die.
If Azula is the is the Queen Bee, Ozai is the Alpha Dog.
The other Queens would disrupt the hive. (Mai seems a hidden Queen, with Ty Lee as the worker bee who is hesitant about which way to swarm)
The Alpha Dog, on the other hand, needs strong Betas (Iroh) for his pack even though he knows that the Beta could potentially be a threat. Goes back to the pack mentality that you brought up.
Men seek hierarchy. Women seek domination. Two sides of the same coin.
But the animal mind (both bee and dog) must have served humanity at one time, otherwise, we would not as a species continue to display it. More sad then scary, I think.