Jolene

When you have his children you have him for life.

I could never pull him from what he’s doing  - no matter how important - just because he is the father.

I could never own a man’s time simply because my body owned his seed.

Does the world recognize what a woman loses when she can’t own a man like this?

She doesn’t only lose the right to be a mother

what women were bred to do
the thing only they can do
the power they hold over the men
who own everything else.

They fucking own everything else.

But women own their precious seed once it is given over 
and then they own the beautiful 
life and the slightly less 
powerful man,

with the powerful title of “Mother”
and let’s be honest, there is no other title that demands such reverence. 

So what does a woman do to arm herself when she cannot have that title, to 
carry like a weapon 
through her adult life?
She is weaponless 
in this war of misogyny 
and need to be both touched by and protected from the pack.

She must find another way to survive.

What would you do, if you had no 
silver bullet, or 
wooden stake, or even holy water and a plastic gun?

“What would you do in a zombie apocalypse, run or fight?”

Well one can only run and fight for so long.

When it’s time to rest, you must hide.

And I can easily understand
How you could easily take my man
But you don’t know what he means to me
Jolene

Dolly Parton