Keira Knightley's Snaggle Tooth

I just watched Pride and Prejudice for the hundredth time; it's nice to see another girl with a snaggle tooth just like mine depicted in the media as a great Hollywood beauty. When you're marginalized, it means a lot to see people who look like you on television. Ask any African-American woman how she felt back in the '60s when she saw Lieutenant Uhura at her little control table on Star Trek. That's right. That's a woman driving that spaceship. That's a black woman driving that spaceship. It was a historical moment. That's why when I see snaggle toothed girls in the movies-- leading ladies at that-- it affirms what I already know. I'm not just the "before" pic at the dentist office. I'm Keira Knightley. We are beautiful. We're rising above the oppression of conventional beauty. We're changing things. We're not opening up beer bottles for your amusement anymore. If you need us, we're standing like enchanting wood nymphs in the field, having our faces tenderly cupped by Mr. Darcy.