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What Big Teeth You Have

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What big eyes you have… (Innocent and sweet), 
What big ears you have… (Don’t talk; just listen), 
What big teeth you have… (Pearly whites with no bite). 

Excluded, 
Misrepresented, 
One dimensional, 
Mother, Maiden, Crone. 

What big eyes you have… (But we can’t see ourselves), 
What big ears you have… (To hear just how wrong we are again), 
What big teeth you have… (Shown as a prop, but no meat to the role). 

Manic Pixie dream girl, 
The other woman, 
The wicked stepmother,  
The sweet old grandmother, 
The strong female protagonist, 
She’s not like other girls. 

What big eyes you have… (Painted and narrowed), 
What big ears you have… (Decorated and pricked), 
What big teeth you have… (With ambition bared). 

Archetypes,  
Tropes, 
Stereotypes, 
But we’re not fiction.  

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