'The question we're asked the most often,' said Provost Zakharina in the inauguration speech of the annual Grand Academy Conference in the Black Citadel, 'Is why only females are accepted into the ranks of our respectable institution? Such a question might sound benign, but nothing can be more deceiving! Before our Academy was established, science had been in the hands of males for countless centuries. After overthrowing the original Matriarchate, power-hungry and sexually-frustrated males kept devising horrors of war and soulless, environment-polluting machines, culminating in the unforgivable Uranus Bomb. We won't allow them to inflict pain on humanity ever again!'
Standing ovations lasted for almost an hour, until the moderator motioned the delegates to sit down.