this song is about germaine greer and elvis's exasperation with her essential misandry {man hating}. he supposes that its rooted in some kind of envy. the foreign bodies that she might take are hormones. as if she were some kind of would be transexual. note the rhymes to germaine (porcelain, pain}.she is of course highly inteligent and overeducated {and over here}. she wants to come first. as a polemicist, she wants to win. elvis dosen't want to come first, or get a first from oxbridge, he just wants to pass.
this song is about germaine greer and elvis's exasperation with her essential misandry {man hating}. he supposes that its rooted in some kind of envy. the foreign bodies that she might take are hormones. as if she were some kind of would be transexual. note the rhymes to germaine (porcelain, pain}.she is of course highly inteligent and overeducated {and over here}. she wants to come first. as a polemicist, she wants to win. elvis dosen't want to come first, or get a first from oxbridge, he just wants to pass.