Clearly they've never met space pirates.

[Their timber involves handcuffing overly-horny paladins to trees to steal their mystical lions.]

Your sympathy is much appreciated.

[Yeah, grumpy Allura is grumpy. It's half cosmetic pride, half "I'm a space general who grow up on Space Australia, losing one half of one's field of weakness is a Bad Thing." Girl could use more chances to laugh at herself. Plus she'd planned on making an official announcement about her engagement, and she can't looking like this.]