'EAT ME' Patience Agbabi - Tumblr Posts

'EAT ME' by Patience Agbabi becomes so much more interesting when you look at it under Simone Beauvoir's feminist viewpoints.

She basically says that we aren't born women but become women and that femininity is largely shaped by what gratifies men.

So in 'EAT ME' the letters of the cake being pink intrinsically link the speaker's femininity to her eating because eating is what gratifies the man.

Femininity becomes a weapon against the speaker who destroys her body in the pursuit of it by the means of pleasing her abuser.