Note that our current terminology is still influenced by our culture and ideology. In the subject of bee sex, dividing bees into two sexes- to count the queen and bees as “really” two variations on the same same sex with drones being the other- is to impose certain ideas we have about human sex onto the entire animal kingdom even when that model isn’t necessarily very useful at organizing our observations of reality.
Furthermore, the tendency to label the largest bee the monarch reflects a cultural obsession with top-down authority, when in fact, to my understanding, most honeybee hive decisions are made by worker bees exchanging information, their individual choices causing emergent behavior without a single Ruling Bee directing anything.
We Are What We Feel 