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In Flying West, for example, there's an abusive man, and the solution, they try to talk to him,

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they try to do the best they can, and he almost beats this woman to death.

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And their solution is, they make a pie, they put poison in it, they feed him the pie,

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he dies, they bury him on the prairie, and go off to the Harvest Dance. Everybody's fine.

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Now, if I said to people who love Flying West--I've never had anyone say to me,

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"Don't you think that's a little extreme, Pearl, that you, you know, killed that guy and buried

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him on the prairie, and nobody even wept? Everybody was ready to go. A couple months later,

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we see them, they're fine." No one has ever, ever said that to me. They're glad that these women

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knew what to do to protect themselves and protect that baby from an abusive man,

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so that the idea of women having the right to protect themselves becomes a part of what

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people see in that play, without knowing that that's what they're seeing at all.