Gordon Ramsay doesn’t care about your gender, race, or creed. All he cares about is that you can cook.

The contestant, Christine, is blind, and he lets her know exactly what he thinks of her dish.

OMG I was preparing myself to be enraged by him making some horrible comment but now I’m crying in Starbucks GOD DAMMIT

Christ I am not okay with these fEELINGS

IM BAWLING

That’s so cute I wanna cry

Is there a Gordon Ramsay fan base on this site??? And where can i join???

Spoilers, she won. Her cookbook is on sale now.

Also, this is the very first apple pie she ever made.

Also, can we please take notice OF HOW HE DESCRIBES IT FOR HER? Ramsay was extremely conscious during the entire season that she would require different tactics than the other contestants; this was not the only time he became her eyes, nor the only time he did things like that scrape of the knife so she could actually have a sense of her work.

And if you really want to bawl like a baby? During final four or final three, I forget which, the remaining contestants got photos from home. Christine’s husband sent their wedding photo—which she had never seen. Ramsay paused before starting the challenge to describe to her not only her husband—the look of love and joy on his face—but also herself as a bride, so she could see in her mind how the two of them looked together on their wedding day.

It was extremely obvious nobody had ever thought to do that before.

This man should be a fucking icon not just for his cooking, but for how he treats those who are different. During the same season he asked a handsome young man, making conversation during auditions, if he had a girlfriend. The man responded that he was gay. Ramsay, without missing a beat: “I’m sorry. Have you got a boyfriend, then?” No drama, no “oh my GOSH! You’re GAY? TOKEN CHARACTER :DDDD” just a very quick, simple whoops-my-mistake and the corrected inquiry. And then he never brought it up again! It was just a thing he learned, getting to know a contestant.

Yes, he can be harsh on MasterChef and downright cruel on Hell’s Kitchen (although if you were a sous chef and you served me raw pork that was not pork tartare, I’d scream too). But he’s not an ogre; he’s a polite man with a gigantic heart who simply happens to take no shit from those who should know better.

Okay let's stop giving him so much credit and shed more spotlight on the "different" people you're talking about. It's great that he treats different people great but it's even greater that different people are showing they're great at something. It's amazing and beautiful and awe-inspiring.

In celebration of the season premiere, here’s some past Parks and Rec boards…. P.S. Calzones are pointless

These are amazing!

We seriously awesomesauce these so much we could kiss you specialbored.

proud of youby ~rainbox17

futurama is one of those shows that lures you in by being funny and then rips your fucking heart out

If you didn’t know the hand was her father, the squid thing her mother, her parents left her at an orphanage when she was a baby but in reality were looking out for her all her life

what makes it even sadder is the reason they left her in an orphanage. they didn’t want her to know she was a mutant. they wanted her to live a normal human life so they gave her up while they live in the sewers as mutants.

now i regret having never watched futurama

J.K. Rowling

#close laptop lid #fling self on bed #let out pained wail of agony #repeat as needed

(via some-natures)

Someone get this guy a fucking medal.

They made birth control for men. However it never got past the clinical testing stage because its side effects were things like “moodiness, extreme cramping, hunger, increased sexual drive” and were considered INHUMANE.

what the fuck do they think women go through every goddamn month seriously

WATCH THIS NOW! EPIC! JUST EPIC!

So much respect for that.

“Dearest Beloved Girl,

[Text behind reads: Dear Steubenville Survivor]

This is a letter of apology for being an adult who has failed to make the world safe for you.

[YOU SHOULD BE SAFE]

You should be safe, and your vulnerability should not invite assault and attack of your body or your spirit.

[WE HAVE FAILED YOU]

So I’m sorry that we have failed to teach your male peers they have no right to touch you without your consent.

[YOU DEMANDED THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD]

You demanded the right to be heard. You may have lost your voice that night, but you found it again when you told the truth.

Even though you knew, didn’t you? You knew just how relentlessly they would try to silence you?

You knew that neighbors and friends, and even the members of the national media would mourn the loss of your attackers’ football careers more than the loss of your innocence.

[YOU SPOKE OUT ANYWAY]

You spoke for yourself and you spoke for the 44% of rape victims who are under 18, and you spoke for my 14 year old self who still hears that thread in my head, “don’t tell, they won’t believe you.”

[44%]

This is my apology and this is my gratitude saying, I believe you. I believe you are inherently valuable, not as a character in some grotesque news cycle where your assault is all we know, but as a girl.

[I BELIEVE YOU]

With hopes and dreams and ambitions and vulnerabilities and so much more growing up to do. I never need to know your name, but I need you to know you are not alone.

If you ever get down, if you ever wonder how you’re gonna go on, take out this letter because I believe you.

Sincerely Melissa.

the best of tumblr confusion

“I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You” written by and illustrated by Yumi Sakugawa, published in Sadie Magazine, 2012.

I was at Target yesterday and this little girl wanted to buy Halo 4, but this lady came up to her and said video games are for boys. This lady had a box of trix in her cart and so the girl grabs the box and said ‘and trix are for kids.’ and ran off with the cereal and the game.

alejandroooooo:

Everything about this wins!

can we please just take a moment to close our eyes and imagine how insanely hilarious and refreshing a public debate between tony stark and romney would be

2016?

On gay marriage:

“No, you don’t understand, Mittens, of course I recognize gay marriage and complete equal benefits for my employees; I trust them with the best technology and equipment and explosives in the country.  As long as they don’t blow up my facilities, I’ll do whatever’s necessary to keep them happy and healthy.  Explosives, Mittens.”

On reproductive rights:

“Just for a second, close your eyes, and imagine that the Black Widow is your co-worker.  And also lives two floors down from you, so she knows where you sleep.  She once incapacitated me- for my own health, of course, but that’s irrelevant- she can do any job a man can do, better, without breaking a sweat, and she learned ‘enhanced interrogation’ from the KGB.  Do you want to tell her what she can or cannot do with her own body?  I thought not.  Okay, moving on.”

On jobs:

“Who remembers that stock crash when I first came out as Iron Man and said I wasn’t making weapons anymore?”  *uncomfortable snickers from audience* 

“No, go ahead, laugh.  Everyone thought I was crazy.  Pepper thought I was crazy, and I owe her a pony for putting up with me all these years.  Oh, shoot, national TV, now I have to give her one, don’t I?  Anyway, they thought I was crazy, because I was shutting down the biggest branch of SI, where most of our manufacturing and research went.  Investors didn’t have hope.  But you know what?  We took those brilliant people, got some fresh ideas, remodeled some factories, and not one employee got laid off that year.  Because if you people work hard, and work together, and you work in a fair environment where every crazy, brilliant idea has a chance to flourish, then you can take half a company and grow it to bigger than it was before.

And that’s what we need to do with jobs in this country.  These unemployment statistics?  Suck.  So let me give you some numbers about how I plan to fix that, so we can get this country working again.  Here’s the plan: and then he goes and gives statistics, and Romney makes a fish face, because Pepper Gave Him Notecards And He Actually Followed Them.  Well, for this part of the speech. 

On defense:

I am Iron Man, in case you don’t watch the news.  Also, we have a Hulk.  Just putting that out there.  Considering the events of the last few years, I think other countries will think twice about pissing off President Stark.

On green energy: Stark is pretty much still the only name in green energy, and all our new facilities are LEED Gold certified. We’re still working on upgrades to some of the oldest buildings, but they’re well on their way. You know how hard it is to get building permits in California?  So yeah, I support the efforts we make in this country to live more sustainably.  Because I love this country, and I’d like to save it for the long run.  It’s kind of what I do. Because it’s awfully hard to Avenge against pollution. 

And in case they get into a dick size contest over who loves America more…

“I’m in a monogamous relationship with freedom”

i’m crY I CAN NO LONGER HANDLE THIS WORLD

“I’M IN A MONOGAMOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH FREEDOM”

Making fun of white celebrities who adopt black babies from Africa as accessories.

If character ethnicity is sacred and something that should never be changed, we need to mention that King Arthur probably wasn't even English.

I mean, Arthur wasn’t a real person, but the imaginary person he was wasn’t English. He is said to have lived in what is now called “England”, but the English as a people didn’t exist yet. He might have been a Breton, he might have been Welsh… he was almost certainly a Celt of some sort and he probably won his fame as a leader of men by fighting against the invading Germanic tribes such as the Angles and the Saxons and if those names sound familiar to you despite not having studied the history it’s probably because you know the phrase Anglo-Saxon which applies to the things we think of as English today.

In history, it refers to the period that started pretty much right after King Arthur—the famous enemy of the Saxons—is said to have lived. Think about that time line. We have the mythical King Arthur fighting against the invading Germanic tribes in the 5th century. Immediately afterwards in history we have the period of time where those Germanic peoples were ascendant and formed the basis of what we know as England today.

In other words, Arthur is a character who was mythologized by the previous inhabitants of Great Britain for having fought an ultimately unsuccessful fight against the people who became the English, and then later adopted by those people. Making him an English legend or folk hero rather than a Celtic one is already changing things around.  

But just as the Frenchmen (yes, French, as in also not English) who wrote down the versions of the King Arthur stories we’re most familiar with depicted courtly manners and armor and castles and things after the familiar fashions of their age, we know that King Arthur is from what we now call England and therefore we typically portray him as an Englishy English man speaking a dialect of English that didn’t exist at the time with a modern accent because at the end of the day we’re less concerned with how things were or would have been and more concerned with how we think they should be.

And that’s what any “WTF HOW CAN THERE BE BLACK PEOPLE IN YE OLDEN TIMES” objection comes down to: how we think things should be. Not how they were. Not how they might have been. But the way we prefer to imagine them.

Because neither ocean travel nor trade nor exploration nor people who weren’t lily white spontaneously popped into being just in time for the trans-atlantic slave trade to happen, and you’re already believing six completely impossible things before breakfast when you accept the Knights In Shining Armor Speaking The King’s English version of Camelot, you are already accepting things we know for a fact to be 100% completely historically inaccurate before we get into the question of fiction versus reality.

Couching objections to the casting of Lancelot on Once Upon A Time or Guinevere in Merlin based on the idea that “politics” shouldn’t affect casting is basically insisting that your own personal politics should dictate casting, that no one should ever be allowed to confront you with a vision that contradicts the way you imagine the world to be, the way you imagine the world should be. And no amount of saying “I’m not racist, but…” before explaining how the world should never contradict the all-white landscape you imagine changes the fact that this is racism at work.

Racism works upon and within us, and we in turn turn around and work it upon the world… especially if we never stop and examine the ways it works within us, if we never allow our desires and opinions to be questioned.

Marceline and Simon

type in “completely wrong” on google images

just

do it

FUCKING. BEAUTIFUL. THING.