Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-4010415-20151212232532

Yeah, and I just rewatched part of the episode again, looking for confirmation on me thinking they said "thousands of years" somewhere along the line. When they first get to the vault and Glynda explains the Maidens and their powers to Pyrrha, she says that the Maidens have existed for thousands of years.

So, yeah. Considering that they've been studying how the whole "power getting passed to another person" thing works and the fact that the Maidens have existed for thousands of years, if a man could be a Maiden, it would've happened by now.

When they say that a man cannot be a Maiden, that's a fact.