KILLING OFF DELILAH TO TACKLE THE SHAME OF WELSH RUGBY MISOGONY

KILLING OFF DELILAH TO TACKLE THE SHAME OF WELSH RUGBY MISOGONY

Tom Jones’s murder ballad Delilah has finally been banned at the Principality Stadium, the Welsh Rugby Union has revealed.

The lyrics ‘why why why Delilah’ from  the 80s hit have been sung at the games for decades – not in glorification of killing your wife!

No, in glorification of a knock-about classic sung by a ‘boyo from the hills’.

But from now, the song won’t be played during the Six Nations again.

This comes as Charlotte Wathan – former head of Wales women’s rugby – alleged that a male colleague joked in front of others in an office environment that he wanted to ‘rape’ her.

Yes, Wathan’s claim needs resolving quickly and nobody, male or female, should be confronted with such insensitive, brutal and old-fashioned insults… but does that mean that a piece of pop culture should be banned from a sporting environment where it has existed for more than half century?

Yes, the song tells of the murder of a woman after she was caught with another man. But it is a power/murder ballad in the old tradition.

It was written  in December 1967. The lyrics were written by Barry Mason, and the music by Les Reed, who also contributed the title and theme of the song. It earned Reed and Mason the 1968 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.

Do you find it offensive?

And then should Johnny Cash’s Delia’s Gone now be banned? 0r Sonic Youth’s Death Valley? Or Springsteen’s Nebraska?

Should we also switch off films like Double Jeopardy or Sleeping with the Enemy?

Sexism and misogyny claims about the Welsh Rugby Union have been known by the Welsh government after they were raised in the Commons last year, an MP said.

Labour’s Tonia Antoniazzi said the ministers should be asked what action they took over the allegations.

Ms Antoniazzi, the Gower MP, said she also raised the concerns directly with the Labour Welsh government after her speech in Parliament last March.

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