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So today was supposed to be my first day back in Taiji classes for the quarter. But apparently I managed to tape my ankle wrong, and it was sore when I was running around on it during the day, and I think I felt something give... anyhow, I got some more tape, did a better job of it (even though it was swollen) and went about my business.

While it swelled up to the size of an orange. Maybe a small grapefruit. Made it partway through the first class before I finally conceded the point and went home. (It was rather grotesque, and really didn't like low stances. Or balance stance.)

I really hope this doesn't mean I've torn through the scar tissue that was building and will have to keep my ankle taped for another twelve weeks instead of another eight... but it probably does.

Stirring up a little trouble...

So one idea I've been kicking about on and off for the last several years is how to work some of the kinks out of the legal system with regard to sex and procreation. I'm only talking about the legal kinks, mind, not the enforcement ones -- the current system in many ways seems on paper to favor mothers, but then the enforcement is pretty awful, which negates a lot of it. So a lot of women who really deserve it don't get child support, and custody and such like is a hellacious mess.

And on the flip side, and more what I'm interested in addressing at the moment, there seems to be a built in assumption that any man who has agreed to have sex with a woman has agreed to have a child by that woman. ( Read more... )