Like those of Jill Meagher, Masa Vukatic and Tracy Connelly, Eurydice Dixon ‘s death has struck a chord with the public.

Most speaking about the budding comedian don’t know her, had never met her and had likely never even heard her name before it anchored headlines and news bulletins around Australia this week.

But something about the 22-year-old’s rape and murder in Carlton North on Tuesday has prompted an outpouring on social media and beyond. There are those offering condolences, sympathising with her friends and loved ones, those who are angry at the perpetrator, furious over victim blaming, or simply frightened that this has happened near their own front doors.

But there are some who have managed to capture something bigger. Something about what this means for and/or to the wider community.

Below are just a few.

(This message has been shared by several people over the past 24 hours or so, and has attracted thousands of reactions. But it wasn’t actually written in response to Eurydice’s murder. It was penned by writer Jane Gilmore in 2015 following the murder of Melbourne schoolgirl Masa Vukotic, who was raped and killed by a stranger in a Doncaster park.

Sadly, the sentiment still applies.)

When young men are tragically killed in one punch attacks an entire city has it’s nightlife shut down indefinitely. When a young woman is brutally raped and murdered women are told to ‘take responsibility for their own safety’.

— Elly Baxter (@ellybaxterpr) June 14, 2018

What happened to Eurydice Dixon is every woman’s fear. It’s the reason we walk with our keys in our hands in the dark. It’s the reason our heart sits in our throat until we’re ‘safely’ in our cars when we’re alone. It shouldn’t be this way. How many of us have to die?

— Steph B (@TheSBatman) June 14, 2018

76 years ago a woman with an uncanny resemblance to Eurydice Dixon was murdered by a stranger in a park across the road from where she was killed. Gladys Hosking was also on her way home, alone. How has nothing changed? #EurydiceDixon pic.twitter.com/z7DGNo3Irz

— Shannon Deery (@s_deery) June 14, 2018

We say ‘rest in peace’ but Eurydice deserved to ‘LIVE in peace’. We all do.

So what do we do from here? What conversation do we have to have? What uncomfortable realities do we need to face up to? Where do we even start?

— ash london (@ash_london) June 14, 2018

A lot of women will feel the death of Eurydice Dixon personally, not because we know her but because her murder is the summation of fears we govern our own lives by every single day.

— freya ???? (@freyalogann) June 14, 2018

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