"Different species, though. Our women have much smaller tailblades, so they can't fight as well as men can, but their tails are as precise as my hands. My real hands," he says after a moment, because he is an Andalite and he finds human hands pretty clumsy. "So of course when that's how people are physically inclined cultures follow, to various degrees. And the culture changes, and there are people who don't fit neat categories and others who insist on them. I was more the latter once, but... it seems like a waste of anger now."

Even if he still thinks emphasizing science and art in training doesn't make a better warrior, who doesn't commit terrible acts to better the war.