THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, July 12, 1995 TAG: 9507110020
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
I picked up my morning newspaper to read that about young woman brutally murdered by one of our male citizens. Jennifer Lea Evans is more than a ``case''; she is another ``load'' added to our dark legacy as human beings.
As a woman, I often wonder why women are stalked, hunted and murdered by males. The men in my life have been ``good guys'' - civilized, protective of the innocent and willing to live in the 20th century with it's purported equal rights for women. Perhaps I've been fortunate.
Reading mail from Amnesty International only accentuates this fact. I have not lived in the intolerant conditions of most of my fellow females throughout the world: Pakistan, Ethiopia, Algeria, Turkey, China, Bosnia, Iraq.
Throughout our world, women still grapple for their basic dignity and their survival in a male-dominant society.
Jennifer Lea Evans is our Hampton Roads version of this atrocity. It is not enough for us to passively allow the murder of women to dominate our headlines. Until all of our civilized males actively participate in the dignity and care of women and female children, we will remain in a lowered state as a race of beings.
E. H. WRAY
Norfolk, June 28, 1995 by CNB