Ovid’s creation story is so predictably male —
natus homo est — I expect Ovid saw homo
as a white Roman male, a norm from which
other colors & genders deviate. A priori,
I reject homo & translate Ovid’s phrase as
humans are born, not being snootish enough
to opt for humanity is born, also not quite yet
determined to feminize Ovid, nudge him
toward woman is born — problematic, since
my preferred future is a gender-irrelevant
world where woman is as impertinent as man.
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