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Che’s motorcycle companion dies

Alberto Granado accompanied Guevara on an epic road trip credited with fuelling the revolutionary’s sense of injustice.

Granado, a biochemist, and Guevara, then a young medical student, embarked together in 1951 on an epic road trip which took them the length of South America from their native Argentina.

The adventure, in which the pair worked at a lepers’ colony and met impoverished miners and indigenous South Americans, is credited with fuelling the sense of injustice that led Guevara to join Fidel Castro’s uprising against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959.

The pair started their journey on a spluttering Norton motorcycle but they were soon reduced to travelling on foot, by bus or boat, and hitchhiking when the bike - nicknamed “La Poderosa” or “the powerful one” - broke down irreparably.

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No, you do not deserve a goddamn blowjob just for doing the dishes. If you live in the house and you eat in the house, you have the responsibility to do the dishes just like every other member of the house does. 

Having grown up in a patriarchal household, I’m having nothing of this. I am sick of seeing my father sit on the couch, eat his dinner, and then leave the dishes there for my mother to pick up and wash. It is not the woman’s job to do the dishes for you. 

It hurts to see fellow women circulating pictures like this. Stop trying to encourage the patriarchal roles. Stop trying to convince them that they have done you a huge favor if they did one household chore and that you should then give them a blowjob for it. 

Does he lick your pussy every time you do the dishes? No? How come? 

Now, while reading this, just remember, I don’t hate you, I just want you to understand.

Okay? Here I go.

Women, for centuries, have been seen merely as sex objects. They’re seen as quiet, stupid, loyal and obeying objects. Us, women, are seen as dogs. Mere animals. And in this card, right here, shows it as exactly that.

You think it’s just a stereotypical little “haha” joke, don’t you? You think no one takes this seriously? Well, let me give you a little info; Here in South Africa, back in the 60s, cards like this were handed out to women all over-and not for a laugh. Husbands used these cards to convince their wives that speaking up was wrong and that men were better. It was used as a disciplinary tool.  It’s one of the many small things that degrade women and keep people shut. These little “haha stereotype jokes” made people think less of themselves. This type of card was (and is still) sexist and make women (and men) think that’s okay. Oh, and btw, since when is stereotypes okay? Since when was prejudice okay? Since when was judging people on a myth ever okay? Strike one, buddy.

 I notice you say “being a guy and all”. What do you mean by that, exactly? Are you saying that because of your gender, you wouldn’t understand this? Are you saying that because you’re a man, you won’t understand the struggle women have gone through for centuries to be seen as human beings? Then why do say anything about this at all? Do you think, because you’re a man, that you know better? Now, don’t get me wrong; have your opinions. You can say what you want. You can be what you want. But the moment you start preaching  about something that you barely understand or have ever experienced and try to change someone’s values, then fuck off.I don’t tolerate that type of shit.Strike two.

 You might see this as a joke, but us, women, find it offensive. We feel degraded and violated. We feel like society will never accept us and we have to lower our standards. We feel we’re never good enough- oh, but wait, you expect us to “just laugh”, don’t you? You just expect me to shake it off and carry on with life just because it’s not a big deal even though over 31,300 people feel less about themselves?  You just expect me to laugh about myself because the rest of society is?

And how to you know this was meant to be funny? Did you draw this? Do you know who drew it? Either way, why must I not speak up because not only does it speak badly about women, but put men in a bad place too.

And how dare you say that women who stand up for human rights are single, desperate and grumpy old grandmas who need men to be happy?

Strike three, you’re out.

Nine, your comment offends me. Why?

Because I’m a feminist.I stand up for women. I stand up for men. I stand up for transgenders. I stand up for genderqueers. And I stand up for every other person in between.

Or to you, I’m the oh-so unhappy desperate girl that need men to make me complete.

I’m the girl that all of the sudden, because I stand up for myself, is automatically wrong just because I don’t have a man in my life.

And, because of that, I have a low-self esteem that needs to shut up because everything I say will be marked as “emotional issues.”

And why do you think that way, Nine, just because I have respect for myself? Just because I want a fair society? Just because I want equality?

Just because I want to get along with you, I’m an unhappy old grinch?

Is that honestly how you feel about feminism?

Nine, if you can’t respect me, as a feminist,