The women are much weaker? Physically smaller, yes, perhaps. The same is true for wraith. But that doesn't make them weaker. "Then the females I have seen in Atlantis must be giants among your women." He remembers She Who Carries Many Things, the one they call Carter. Short, yes. Slight, yes. But very, very far from weak.

HE scoffs, teeth bared in a brief smile as he lays a hand over John's chest; a gesture he knows would have been very threatening before but shouldn't be now. "YOu are truly a strange people, John Sheppard."