Mirror the universe through a point and ΛCDM cannot tell the difference; the measured sky can. Under point reflection the CMB's spherical harmonics divide cleanly: even multipoles are symmetric, odd multipoles antisymmetric, and a statistically isotropic Gaussian sky should distribute its power between the two families without preference. The measured large-angle sky prefers odd: across multipoles from 2 to roughly 30, odd-multipole power systematically exceeds even-multipole power, the point-parity asymmetry quantified by Kim and Naselsky in WMAP data and confirmed in Planck at 2-to-3 sigma persistence, entangled with its siblings, since the low quadrupole (an even mode deficit) and the parity preference are partially two views of one spectral oddity. The asymmetry's preferred frame analysis ties it loosely to the same directional family as the other large-angle anomalies.
Parity, like isotropy, is not a tunable feature of the standard model but an inheritance from its initial conditions: inflation's Gaussian field knows no handedness and no center, so even-odd balance is structural, and the measured preference can only be a fluctuation (the usual 1-in-100-class accounting, purchased again), a masking or foreground artifact (investigated repeatedly without resolution), or physics beyond the model. Proposed exotic sources, parity-violating gravity, primordial vector fields, topological structures, are each bespoke imports with no independent motivation.
The standing is the usual large-angle deadlock at maturity: temperature is cosmic-variance-limited and the asymmetry is permanent in that channel, the family connections (deficit, alignments, modulation) remain suggestive rather than statistically unified, and polarization parity statistics offer the independent retest that chance cannot survive twice.