Humpty dumpty is a male or female?

Question

From the literature it refers to him as male and he often is seen wearing masculine clothing. However I would like to point out that an egg is feminine.

Answer 1

It is odd how such an "intelligent" species can be so caught up in gender identity.

Had the nursery rhyme been about a female, it is likely that it wouldn't be known by so many.

Answer 2

Female Humpty Dumpty

Answer 3

Humpty dumpty is neither as the rhyme doesn't say it's male or female and androgenous entities wear male clothes. If it wore a dress, it would be considered female but since females are known to wear clothes of either sex, it's harder to tell. Since however the rhyme doesn't even say it's an egg, the answer you are looking for is humpty-dumpty is a cross-dressing female.

Answer 4

Not if it contains a male organism. The book "Annotated Mother Goose" says that "Humpty Dumpty" was the military code name for a ramp that was constructed to give Charles I of England's loyalist Cavaliers access to the fortress of Oliver Cromwell's "Roundhead" Puritans. When the ramp (code name "Humpty Dumpty") was destroyed "all the kings and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again". The revolt was won and the King was eventually beheaded and the Puritans ruled for awhile during the "interregnum" until the Restoration of Charles II.

Answer 5

True the egg came from a female as is the case of us but we although came from a female egg the gender is not the covering but how we are fertilized. We then either become a male , female, and in some cases, part both. You need to study your scince for that part of the answer.
We can see because of who choose his wardrobe that he is a he or an female impersonator.
So whether you asked this for a joke it is all inside the yoke that made the difference. Until he broke nobody could be sure but afterwards they had proof he was a he and there was no joke about the yoke.

Answer 6

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

The fact that Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as Boule Boule in French, or Lille Trille in Swedish; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.

Origins

Previous to the "short, clumsy person" meaning, "humpty dumpty" referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale. There are also various theories of an original "Humpty Dumpty", who was not an egg. Most, if not all, of these must be classified as false etymologies.
• According to an insert taken from the East Anglia Tourist Board in England, Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon used in the Siege of Colchester during the English Civil War. It was mounted on top of the St Mary's at the Wall Church in Colchester defending the city against siege in the summer of 1648. Although Colchester was a Royalist stronghold, it was besieged by the Roundheads for 11 weeks before finally falling. The church tower was hit by enemy cannon fire and the top of the tower was blown off, sending "Humpty" tumbling to the ground. Naturally all the King's horses and all the King's men (Royalist cavalry and infantry respectively) tried to mend "him" but in vain. Other reports have Humpty Dumpty referring to a sniper nicknamed One-Eyed Thompson, who occupied the same church tower.
Visitors to Colchester can see the reconstructed Church tower as they reach the top of Balkerne Hill on the left hand side of the road. An extended version of the rhyme gives additional verses, including the following:
In Sixteen Hundred and Forty-Eight
When England suffered the pains of state
The Roundheads lay siege to Colchester town
Where the King's men still fought for the crown
There One-Eyed Thompson stood on the wall
A gunner of deadliest aim of all
From St. Mary's Tower his cannon he fired
Humpty-Dumpty was its name...


• In another theory, Humpty Dumpty referred to King Richard III of England, the hunchbacked monarch, the "Wall" being either the name of his horse (called "White Surrey" in Shakespeare's play), or a reference to the supporters who deserted him. During the battle of Bosworth Field, he fell off his steed and was said to have been "hacked into pieces". (However, although the play depicts Richard as a hunchback, other historical evidence suggests that he was not.)

Answer 7

Whoa, dude, i think you have way to much time on your hands to sit and pick apart a child's nursery rhyme. Humpty Dumpty is a male. They didn't intend for the use of an egg to boggle the minds of idiots later on. It says he's a he, then he's a he. Not he's a she. Wow, must everything be ripped apart and made politically correct? Can't things from ppls childhood be left alone.
Let it be man, just let it be.

Answer 8

Male. On the basis that it is what i always thought humpty dumpty to be. Also, the name says it all.. if it was female maybe humptilda would have been the name haha

Answer 9

the egg bearer is feminine ... the egg can be male or female.

And since all the Kings men gave up on trying to put him back together, I say Humpty Dumpty wasn't a girl.
But if she was a girl, that would explain why the kings men couldn't understand her - (what man can understand a woman?)

Answer 10

An egg might be "feminine" but the majority of chicken eggs turn out male, so who knows what's inside? Anyway, only a bloke would fall off a wall.