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I mean, when they find out, they are visibly perplexed

But even so, they rush and try to help her when she’s about to get killed

After this, they all seem quite depressed about having to leave her behind (and when Shang ignores her)

And when she shows up and takes action, they gladly follow her lead

And they even rock some crossdressing, like she did

(btw they just missed a great opportunity to make Shang crossdress here, shame on you movie)

gordon ramsay: *holds neville between two slices of bread* what are you

Imagine that this is Gordon Ramsay a la Masterchef Junior

Neville: *messes up the potion, realizes it, starts crying quietly*

GR: What’s going on?

Neville: *explains how he messed up*

GR: Oh gosh okay…we can fix this, don’t cry, see, it’s fine now? Just be more careful when you’re adding the Newt’s eyes, all right? Drop them in gently. There we go. No more tears.

Ramsay: All you had to do was treat it with a fucking Beozar! 

Slughorn: It was a stressfu-

Ramsay: How long have you been teaching potions?!

or

Ramsay: So you’re going to raise this boy SPECIFICALLY so he can die as part of your twisted little scheme? 

Dumbledore: It’s for the greater good, professor. 

Ramsay: The greater fucking good?! *holds two slices of bread either side of dumbledoor’s face* What are you? 

Dumbledore: Am I, per chance, an idiot sandwich? 

Gordon had run in to help a group of struggling kids with a team challenge and one of the older kids, a 12 year old boy, wasn’t passing attention while taking a pan out of the oven and not only spilled all the food but scalded Gordon.

It’s clear Gordon’s leg is in pain. He’s been badly burned without warning. But he doesn’t scream. He doesn’t yell, not even in pain, and he doesn’t go off on the child who is now frozen in fear. He calmly tells the child to set the pan down and to close the oven, safety first. Then tells him to go restart the food he was making, calm instructions.

My husband and I grew up in abusive homes where any mistake meant parents getting angry (my husband is terrified of spills or broken glasses because that meant beatings growing up, for me, anything going wrong, that could upset my mother, even if it wasn’t my fault meant screaming and emotional abuse).

I didn’t know someone could be so calm. That someone could not get angry, and put aside what they’re feeling (in this case a lot of physical pain) and not take it out on those around them, even when someone around them had messed up, because that person is a child.

Yes.

Many of you don’t seem to believe that it exists so here are a few statistics and please keep in mind this is a very short list and doesn’t get into anything even as “trivial” as representation in the media or as specific as how high these numbers go when you include intersections of race and sexuality and anything besides binary gender

Being disabled in public was illegal in the United States until the mid-1970s (x)

In the UK most disabled people, approximately 400,000, are still not allowed to leave their homes (x)

Disabled people are still legally allowed to be paid slave wages, as little as $0.22 an hour (x)

To receive disability benefits, which can be around $700 a month, a United States resident can be required to not have any savings, to own any property, to never inherit money or property, to never have more than $2,000 in their checking account, to never work for anything above the aforementioned slave wages, as well as many other restrictions (x)

Disabled people are not allowed to get married unless they were born able-bodied and became disabled through a work accident (x)

Disabled people, even simply the seeing or hearing divergent, often have their children taken away from them by social services for no reason (x)

Disabled women are twice as likely to victims of domestic violence as abled women (x)

Disabled women are less likely to seek help for their abuse, and oftentimes the little help the receive is not appropriate (x)

Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse over a longer period of time and suffer more severe injuries as a result (x)

Reports of sexual violence against disabled women range between 51% and 79% (x)

Forced sterilization was legal in the United States until 2014 and was most often performed on the disabled and/or women of color (x)

85% of disabled women have experienced domestic violence (x)

80% of women with intellectual disabilities have been sexually assaulted, and 50% of those women had been assaulted more than 10 times. (x) 

Half of the people murdered by police officers are disabled (x)

Family members of disabled individuals are not only legally allowed to “put down” their disabled family member but they are often praised in the community and media as heroes for it (x)

So let me explain once again,

That was an example of how segregation can range from understandable to the inhumane

Not to say that things like segregated parking doesn’t have its disadvantages. Disabled people are very often violently and sexually accosted in the spaces because would be abusers know exactly where to find us and can very discreetly follow us or force themselves into our cars. I don’t know that anyone’s done statistics on it but I also don’t know if anyone who is disabled who hasn’t been assaulted in handicap parking.

These spaces are also huge issues of contempt able-bodied people have against the disabled. You are probably more familiar with the story of Rosa Parks being asked to leave her seat because a more privileged (white) person wanted her seat and therefore she was expected to give it to them. This is how segregation works. Handicap parking is often used by able-bodied people and although this is illegal, when a disabled person notifies security they are often met with hostility and the chances of it ending up in assault either by the security themselves or the able-bodied person who parked goes up exponentially so it’s often not an option to do anything but quietly leave.