Twitter Speaks: Is This The Teacher You Want?

Is it OK to sexualize teachers like this?

Yesterday, someone shared a pretty ordinary picture on Twitter. But the caption that accompanied that picture has got many people outraged, prompting many people to do soul searching about what our teachers meant to us.

Here is the tweet in question:

https://twitter.com/AnumKhanIK/status/1080334925688172544

The photo got 3.7K retweets, But most people were angry that the tweet was a pathetic attempt at portraying teachers as objects.

Here are some reactions that accompanied the picture’s attempt to sexualize teachers:

The account even got schooled by a fellow teacher for the post.

https://twitter.com/Tooba_Sd/status/1080854315559018497

In fact many women were the ones most irked by the idea of objectifying women’s bodies. Why do this to yourself, they ask:

Then of course, some made light of the post:

Some people were of the view that is a thought-provoking post.

https://twitter.com/ama_mariam/status/1080912535933591552

Just in case someone thought that the person who sent that tweet may not have meant what their tweet implied, well there’s no doubt now. The person that posted the picture with that caption really intended for it to be suggestive:

https://twitter.com/AnumKhanIK/status/1080356893023973376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Some people also came to the conclusion that the account was a fake one.

https://twitter.com/nighatdad/status/1081062099214893056

https://twitter.com/SohaibVoice/status/1080854461801730049

What do you think of the whole thing?