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Quote of the day: I've been wondering: has Britney ever cared about gay people that much?

Or, has Britney become such that, only gay people care about her that much?

If you don't know what I'm talking about:

1 Susan Still
2 Okinawan shirt
3 Sarah McCarthy and Beth Kidnie
4 Tanya Kelly Flowerday
5 Delphi Newman

[edit] Susan Still

Susan Still (born 1964, New York state) is an American housewife who escaped decade-long domestic abuse by husband Ulner Lee Still in 2003 and testified against Ulner. In December 2004, New York State Supreme Court Justice John F. O'Donnell handed Ulner Still a 36-year prison sentence. The grounds were assault in the second degree (six counts), assault in the third degree (six counts), and endangering the welfare of a child (two counts), making it the longest sentence given to the crime of domestic violence that didn't result in the death of the victim. ^[1]^[2]^[3]. In May 7, 2007 Susan Still appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in order to bring awareness to domestic violence against women. The show aired home videos recorded by the Stills' 13 year-old son on a 50 minute-long beating of Susan by her husband. Susan has gained recognition among groups that campaign against violence against women, served as keynote speaker in Houston for the National College of District Attorneys and shared her story with Diane Sawyer on “20/20” in October.

[edit] Life and domestic abuse

Susan Still was born in 1964 in a wealthy New York middle-class family. She attended college in Buffalo, New York and met blues guitarist Ulner Lee Still and fell in love. They married a few years later when Susan supported the family financially by working at a health insurance company. At first, Ulner was controlling but not particularly violent or abusive. According to Susan on Oprah, he had a will to dominate and the power to brainwash. Susan was soon cut off from her parents and any friends to talk to. However she was slow to realize the danger of her husband's domineering behaviors. After giving birth to their oldest children, a boy and a girl, Susan had to quit work and stay home. The family's financial situations deteriorated and Ulner became physically abusive. It came to a head in 1992 when Ulner struck his wife badly after she forgot an item when grocery shopping. In 2002, the family's financial situation worsened as they had more children and the two's careers became less stable. Susan began working again to singlehandedly support the family while Ulner became increasingly abusive. As Susan found a new confidant in her new employer Lynn Jasper, Ulner became more distrustful^[4]. The long-term marriage became shaky and Ulner started threatening to have Susan to choose between being kicked out of the household, denied custody of her children on the one hand, and living under humiliation as his "white slave" and being abused by her husband or by her sons at their father's instigation. Ulner instructed his sons, especially the eldest, 21, and the second, 13, to call their mother "white slut" and tape him beating her. He would later play the video tapes to the family during dinner, occasionally pausing, pointing out Susan's flaws, mocking her while justifying her beating. He also denied Susan the right to hug her youngest son, 8, unless she asked for permission. Employer Jasper also overheard Susan addressing her husband as "master" over phone conversations and noticed bruises over her face that she disguised as accidental injuries. Finally in May 2003, Jasper encouraged Susan to escape the household with her two sons after discovering a farewell letter at her office drawer containing words like "If anything should happen to me or if I should turn up missing, it is possible my husband was involved".

[edit] Escape and court case

Susan sought protection under the police in May 2003 with two sons and reported her husband for domestic abuse. Lisa Bloch Rodwin, assistant district attorney for Erie County, N.Y. gathered the evidence.

[edit] Significance

The accused, Ulner Lee Still received the longest sentence ever in the U.S. for domestic violence that did not result in the death of the victim^[5]. It has generated some controversy especially after the story was aired on Oprah Winfrey in May 2007. The ethnic backgrounds of the couple, Ulner being African-American and Susan being Caucasian and the excessive use of racial epithets such as "White slut", "White slave" by the accused on the victim, point to the disputable existence of racial hatred or hate crime even in a married relationship^[6]^[7]. The extent that Ulner had copied from the abuse of Black slaves by White plantation owners of the antebellum American South when abusing his wife also suggests that the emotional and psychological scars on the American society caused by its history of racial animosities might not be successfully dealt with by a culture of guilt and pent-up grievances. Incidents like this are by no means typical of interracial relations, as hate crimes are by no means inevitable outcomes of the social conditions that they exist in. However, it is the discourse of dehumanizing language reflecting both on racial animosity and gender inequality that is particularly disturbing, as they provide insight into the mentality of hate, abuse and violence and the social conditions of unemployment and the cultural bankruptcy of the American nuclear family^[8].

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[edit] Okinawan shirt

Shinzo Abe's summer attire.

[edit] Sarah McCarthy and Beth Kidnie

Victim:
Time:
Places:
Culprit:
Notes:

Victim: Beth Kidnie or Elizabeth Kidnie, Co-Steel CEO, married to Peter Kidnie, CEO of Bank of Montreal Finance Ltd. see Bank of Montreal
Time: April, 2000
Places: Etobicoke
Culprit: Pilar Hicks
Notes:

Victim: Sarah McCarthy
Time: November 25, 2005
Places: Richmond, Ontario, Ottawa, Queens Way
Culprit: Youssef Jaber
Notes:

[edit] Tanya Kelly Flowerday

Tanya Flowerday Until October 8, 2003, Tanya Kelly Flowerday was just another South African murder victim, not even warranting a mention in the newspapers. She had been brutally murdered four months earlier, on June 13, and left on a sidewalk in the Darrenwood area of Randburg, Johannesburg. But on the evening of October 7, an investigative program, called Spits, revealed that she might have been the first known victim of a snuff movie in South Africa.

Killed by Ronald Edward Grimsley/Ronald Grimsley

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/tanya_flowerday/1_index.html

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/0,,2-7_1581559,00.html

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1426981,00.html

http://iafrica.com/news/sa/345464.htm

[edit] Delphi Newman

Delphi Newman/Delphi Neumann and Alexandra Sablatnig

Delphi was on Ladbroke Grove along the Grand Union Canal, near Fernhead Road. Attacked by Drayford Crew, Claire Marsh, Marvin Edwards (a student with learning difficulty at Swiss Cottage),

The gang formed around Lydford Estate off Harrow Road.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020328/ai_n12606743

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-937585-details/London+estate+that+bred+a+rape+gang/article.do;jsessionid=ghBrGngcvh8S1XYYZM2JrGGshByv8kb7113TfjS02kKgS1FhvhZ8!-1607419528!-1407319224!7001!-1