MAS have posted on Fbook but Breast stroke is notorious for putting pressure on joints, wrists, knee, back. It's a bit of an awkward unnatural movement, lots of flexing and pushing, front crawl or backstroke is much better as everything jets stretched out, much better for you. I did type gets but jets is a good typo!
trice That sounds interesting, you are on the territory of my Master's diss which was all about how difficult is can be for women to find sources of power and to define their own identities, including their sexual identity. You could debate whether the UK is patriarchal but I was writing about a culture that most definitely is and even in a very unequal society where women were constantly used as commodities, to confer status, as political pawns, as the subject in sex, and literally crippled in the process, they still managed to find sources of power and in little ways a voice to write their own history, even those at the very bottom of society. There is a great book by Elizabeth Hershatter about prostitution in Shanghai http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Pleasures-Prostitution-Twentieth-Century-E-Lilienthal/dp/0520204395 that shows that even though men sought to make them subjects most of them did manage to assert their own power and identities in all sorts of (fascinating 
) ways.
I agree that we want to be ourselves first and foremost but society can make that difficult and try to confer on us (stereotypical) identities and I think the pink thing is part of that, which is why some of us rail against it. I want to be recognised as an intelligent person and I have never been pink and girly (though have no problem if other women want to be) and I never felt my breasts were an important part of my sexual identity but I went and got a "women's" cancer that has been branded pink, and everything, the leaflets, the changing rooms etc. is on bloody brand. Wrong because the brand and the disease don't match, wrong because the disease isn't gendered, men get it as well. It just happens to occurr in a part of the body that our society values as a part of women's sexual identity ( not every society does so, tradtionally chinese men were turned on by mutilated rotting feet, they wrote poems about the erotic smell 
) I dare you to raise the example of Shanghai pros and the sexuality of rotting feet 
Little pigeons was saying last night how annoying she finds all the boobs on show this month, if it was gangrene awareness month would they be covering magazines with pictures of lovely arms and legs ?
really You keep making me Think of Dora the explorer. Perhaps now we know what she has in that backpack
kitkat do make sure your DD wears her retainer, both of mine have gaps again after all the 000s we spent on getting rid of them 
I've gone on again...
Where is Topsy Missing you
Hope Ruby is busy making friends with the undercover chocolate 
eaters
Love and hugs to all who need it