: If all children are equal then how does a female get rank? A male leads the
: clan but how does any arbitrary female child have any more status than any
: other?

: I suppose a Kaidon could give his wife away but how does she keep her status
: when she is no-longer married to that Kaidon? Does it really work? Here,
: take one of our females and we will have an alliance, somehow.

: In the fiction, private moments between male and female seem to the the only
: time a Sangheli male can show his tender side. The death of a spouse also
: gives them something to want revenge for.

Yes this was absolutely necessary. :P