Quote:
"David is the enigmatic star of Loved, Honoured and Bruised. The half-hour documentary tells the true story of David and his wife, Jeannie, a fresh-faced, gentle woman in her late 30s who took their five little daughters and walked out one day when she thought he was going to kill her. As she edged past him to reach the children's suitcase, he clouted her so hard that he perforated her eardrum. I went to see this small and honest film by Gail Singer because I was uneasy about a spate of letters reacting to my column several weeks ago about Marianne, the beaten wife. Marianne, an articulate, middle-class wife not unlike Jeannie, had told me about her agonized terror of her husband. Most of the women who wrote expressed sympathetic anger on Marianne's behalf. Most of the men who wrote said that Marianne must 'seek tyranny', 'have rocks in her head', 'enjoy punishment'. Their chorus, above all, was 'Why the hell doesn't she get out?'"
-- Michele Landsberg

Source:
Landsberg, Michele. Women and Children First: A Provocative Look at Modern Canadian Women at Work and at Home. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1982. (p. 76)