Sarah Kay - The Type — Transcript

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1. 0:05If you grow up the type of woman men want to look at
2. 0:12You can let them look at you
3. 0:14Do not mistake eyes
4. 0:17for hands
5. 0:19or windows
6. 0:20or mirrors
7. 0:23Let them see what a woman looks like they may not have ever seen one before
8. 0:31If you grow up the type of woman men want to touch
9. 0:36You can let them touch you
10. 0:39Sometimes it is not you they are reaching for
11. 0:44sometimes it is a bottle a door
12. 0:49a sandwich a
13. 0:51Pulitzer
14. 0:52Another woman, but their hands found you first
15. 0:55do not mistake yourself for a guardian or
16. 0:59a muse or a promise or
17. 1:02a victim or a
18. 1:04Snack you are a woman
19. 1:07skin and bones
20. 1:09Veins and nerves, hair and sweat, you are not made of metaphors
21. 1:14not apologies
22. 1:16not
23. 1:18excuses
24. 1:21If you grow up the type of woman men want to hold
25. 1:26You can let them hold you
26. 1:28All day they practice keeping their bodies upright even
27. 1:33After all this evolving it still feels unnatural
28. 1:38Still strains the muscles holds firm the arms and spine
29. 1:43Only some men will want to learn what it feels like to curl themselves into a question mark around you
30. 1:51admit they do not have the answers they thought they would by now some men will want to hold you like the
31. 1:59answer
32. 2:04You are not
33. 2:06The
34. 2:08answer.
35. 2:10You are not the problem.
36. 2:14You are not the poem or the punchline
37. 2:17or the riddle or the joke. Women, if you grow up the type men want to love
38. 2:23You can let them love you
39. 2:26Being loved is not the same thing as loving
40. 2:30When you fall in love it is
41. 2:33discovering the ocean after
42. 2:35years of
43. 2:37Puddle jumping it is realizing that you have
44. 2:41Hands it is reaching for the tightrope when the crowds have all gone home
45. 2:46Do not spend time
46. 2:48wondering if you are the type of woman men will hurt if he leaves you with a car alarm heart you may learn to
47. 2:56Sing along it is
48. 2:58hard to
49. 3:00Stop loving the ocean even
50. 3:04After it has left you gasping
51. 3:07salty
52. 3:08So forgive yourself for the decisions you have made
53. 3:13The ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night and know this
54. 3:20Know, you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours
55. 3:28Let the statues crumble
56. 3:31You have always been
57. 3:33the place
58. 3:35You are a woman who can build it yourself. You were born
59. 3:42to build