Dear Chris Evans - Please stop doing the Delilah slot on a Friday - I'm sure when you look at the following it will make you think again about this song - especially as you have women and girls as family members, colleagues and friends. This song celebrates a man murdering his wife because she had left him for another man - harmless fun?.
Please consider these facts
One woman every 3days is murdered by her current or ex-partner.
70% of women who are murdered are murdered by their male partners.
The %u201Ccrime of passion%u201D defence of provocation i.e. their partner was having an affair is used by virtually all male defendants pleading not guilty to murder of a female partner and leads to lesser sentences than other murder charges. The sentences awarded for this crime have typically been 3 to 5 years.
1 in 3 women experience domestic violence in their lifetime
The largest Cause of morbidty in women aged 19 - 44 is domestic violence
Thankfully the law is about to change to ensure domestic violence is treated as other forms of homicide. However - many people remain unaware of the scale and impact of domestic violence on our Society.
I feel that your Friday night slot encourages listeners to laugh along to the stabbing of a woman and men, women and children up and down the Country sing and dance along to it. It also reinforces the idea that a man is justified in taking extreme action if his partner leaves him or has an affair - which is not a crime.
So maybe you're thinking 'have a sense of humour - it's only a song' if it was a song about child abuse or animal cruelty would you feel the same?
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