Sylph Genders

[gornotck]

Reading it, it looks to me like both are correct and without conflict. Ferne stated that they don't exactly match up with our concepts of 'male' and 'female', that only adults, and only some adults, produce seeds, and that these seeds become podlings. The minion calls these seed-producing adult Sylphs 'male', which doesn't exactly match our concept of 'male', sets 'female' as being non-seed producing Sylphs, and entirely works with previously stated facts, fictions and fabrications about Sylphic sexuality.
Sylphs are seahorse cabbages.

[Berrod]

Reading it, it looks to me like both are correct and without conflict. Ferne stated that they don't exactly match up with our concepts of 'male' and 'female', that only adults, and only some adults, produce seeds, and that these seeds become podlings. The minion calls these seed-producing adult Sylphs 'male', which doesn't exactly match our concept of 'male', sets 'female' as being non-seed producing Sylphs, and entirely works with previously stated facts, fictions and fabrications about Sylphic sexuality.
Sylphs are seahorse cabbages.

I'm sort of leaning toward this too, but all I want is clarification.

[TinyRedLeaf]

Sylphs are seahorse cabbages.

+1 for the seahorse reference, a fun fact that I would have otherwise forgotten.