Actually, what I think is almost worse, is that the smug little asshat had a programme a couple of days later which featured one of his 'saint Jeremy of the fallen/hopeless/brave' stories, about a woman who had suffered the most horrific abuse (case of Sean Johnston). He kept saying things like 'this woman, she gave birth, and she RAN!' I hated it. Yes, she was amazingly brave to escape, but it was almost like anyone who DOESNT (read, feels they can't, are too scared, too cowed, or too anything) isnt brave, doesn't deserve sympathy etc. 'look how bad she had it! She still escaped'. And - though she said she wanted to, and although details were in the press - he went through the detail, almost pruriently, and the viewer didn't need to hear that to know she was brave, or the poor woman's brave message, which was essentially, 'get out if your instinct tells you to, I ignored my instinct'.
As for the poor woman referred to in the original post, the pig ignorant misogynist twat doesn't seem to realise that even as late as the 1970's men were told to put the family home into their name only so the wife wouldn't have a claim on it. Women were sacked (with no recourse) for being pregnant, often didn't get custody of children in divorce, domestic violence was barely prosecuted IF investigated (women were often told shit like 'well you must have done something to provoke him love'), marital rape was legal, and divorcees wouldn't get hired. Yep, you should have just walked out love, life would have been EASY.