Psychologists now believe fledgling psychopaths can be identified as early as kindergarten. The hope is to teach these children empathy before it’s too late.

This is the scariest thing I have ever read! Sociopathology is something I’ve always found interesting, and when that cold detachment is found in children, it freaks me out.

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May 10, 2012

So You Think You're A Feminist: My Abortion Experience

soyouthinkyoureafeminist:

I’ve seen a few posts around tumblr in which women detail their abortion experiences. I’ve had two, and while I’m not exactly secretive about it, I don’t introduce myself with, “Hi, I’m Tina and I had an abortion.” Not so much an icebreaker as a dealbreaker, ykwim? So, I’ll do it here.

The first…

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May 9, 2012

“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage…”

(Source: killamwithkindness, via ashalee)

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