Em Breen

Content Editor, insomniac and hermit.

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Maya Angelou

Trust your instincts. Protect yourself. #ClaresLaw #DomesticViolenceDisclosure #DomesticAbuse #coercivecontrol

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

It is a day for audacity. Audacity and caucacity. Oh, *man*, the audacity!

[Rose @RoseEmpower]

A well-known man told the High Court that allowing allegations made by several women to be published would put his life at serious risk. However the judge accepted that the risk was real. But ruled that publication could go ahead.
Anyone who works in domestic abuse will recognise this dilemma.
Threats of suicide can be a form of coercive control. They can also reflect a genuine risk to life. Sometimes, both things are true at once.
Women are often left carrying the responsibility for keeping a man alive, even when doing so means remaining in a situation that is harming them.
So when a woman says, “I can't leave because he says he'll kill himself,” we need to ask a difficult question.
Who is responsible for keeping him safe? And why is that responsibility so often placed on her?
#domesticabuse #coercivecontrol #Narcissist

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

@kelloggshelp_uk @takethemike Coco Pops are absolutely vile too. Only good for the bin. The rice flour recipe has ruined them. Cutting costs is going to lose you so many customers. Well played, Kellogg's😕

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

Or its sequel? Because Trump clearly has... Hannibal addresses Chief Inspector Pazzi: "On a related note, I must confess to you, I'm giving very serious thought to eating your wife." Hannibal (2001)

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "We're giving serious thought to changing the name to the Trump Reflecting Pool"

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Or its sequel? Because Trump clearly has...

Hannibal addresses Chief Inspector Pazzi: "On a related note, I must confess to you, I'm giving very serious thought to eating your wife." Hannibal (2001)

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Sesame Workshop mourns the loss of Sir Patrick Stewart. Thank you for being our friend and for sharing your brilliance, joy, and kindness with the world. 💛💚

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

@chrisdias79 @golddddsugz Pretty sure that the Harlem comment and all the delightful misogyny were entirely the short scumbag friend's own doing. I've never heard of a cocktail that can make a good guy into a racist, sexist, belligerent twat. It's also telling that no one at the table was surprised...

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

@danidonovan I just demo'd this very scenario by saying I would have something checked within the hour. Sitting with that thing open, doing everything but that thing and then racing the clock once I had under 10 mins to go because it was the only motivating force I could muster...

[Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT]

Here's an easter egg: That's the butterfly jar Lucille has in Crimson Peak

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

@JohnFCollins11 @akuareindorf Dead women, John. Dead WOMEN. Not props. Watching other women die at the hands of men (all kinds of men) is our lived reality, no matter how inconvenient that may be to your gammon-tinted narrative.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

A strong implication here that this horrific murder was committed by a migrant, and plenty of responses running with that narrative.

Meanwhile the victim's white, middle class husband has been arrested.

The problem is, and has always been, men.

[Women o' Scotland @WomenOScotland]

When this news first broke, yesterday, many women had the same fear. Today, that fear has been confirmed. Dr Hannah Terry’s husband has been charged with her murder.

The BBC headline? “Man charged with GPs murder” Nowhere in the story does it mention that the man charged with her murder is her husband. BBC reporting at its finest.

We are in the middle of an epidemic of MVAWG. Far too often, we see reports of women being killed in their own homes by the men in their lives who they loved and trusted and our media can’t even be trusted to report the facts. They is must do better.

Man charged with GP's murder https://t.co/keFLN6u5sY

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

@derek2bell @msloobylou That's perfect!

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

@derek2bell @msloobylou He really did. Wow. Annnd here's The Guardian reporting the story. That's unfortunate. Still, I guess he's everyone's favourite cheeky geezer again now... https://t.co/1AI3RylSkz

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

@derek2bell @msloobylou I'm not afraid of masculinity but I am afraid to click into this. Didn't good old Danny suggest someone cut up their ex's face the last time one of his letters was published?!

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

@crimsoooo This is beautiful!

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

The Tom Cruise dick-riding is getting embarrassing.

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

@lauren_wilford It's bonkers how fast it took hold. My daughter and her friends have suddenly started using it (incorrectly) daily ("Ugh, she doesn't even *play* Resident Evil, total larper!"). She knows what LARPing is. I'm not a role-play person, yet I'm still disproportionately irritated💀

[Em Breen @Em_Breen]

@filmstories Susie sounds like a smashing lady. Sad to lose a decent soul from the industry too, especially as that becomes a rarer attribute. May her memory be a blessing to everyone whose lives she touched.