And like so many horrible cultural things in so many cultures, it's only exposure to the reactions of outsiders that make a society re-evaluate something that's gone on for as long as anybody can remember.

However, since we're chronicling a world that's a parody of so many SF fantasies it only seemed fair to extrapolate the nastier bits as well.

Wait until somebody argues of Vespiir that "she deserved what she got" in front of the Juniors.