I like your Galileo quote in your signature. about the Chinese ideogram, though - a woman with two husbands can lead to just as much tension as the other way around. it's just that polyandry is much rarer than polygyny. patriarchy is the reason for that, and your reference to this ideogram is implicitly justifying patriarchy. funny how that happens.

thank you. i didn't put any thought into the ideogram...it just sounds funny to me.

Yes, the first aid would have required such hard to find equipment as a face cloth.