{"id":214773,"date":"2019-01-04T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=214773"},"modified":"2019-01-06T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T10:17:51","slug":"twitter-speaks-is-this-the-teacher-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/twitter-speaks-is-this-the-teacher-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Speaks: Is This The Teacher You Want?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the tweet in question:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnumKhanIK\/status\/1080334925688172544<\/p>\n<p>The photo got 3.7K retweets, But most people were angry that the tweet was a pathetic attempt at portraying teachers as objects.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some reactions that accompanied the picture&#8217;s attempt to sexualize teachers:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Allah bachaye aise teacher sy. Teachers is like a mother not as a girlfriend. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Areebsay&#39;s (@Hiareeb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hiareeb\/status\/1080518324331659264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sorry you don&#39;t deserve to be called teacher<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Malik (@stayhapp4ever) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stayhapp4ever\/status\/1080538432290607106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The account even got schooled by a fellow teacher for the post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Teaching has less to do with looks and more to do with being able to inculcate values of critical thinking &amp; learning. This is highly problematic for me as a teacher. Many of us young teachers struggle to be taken seriously &amp; would like to be more than an \u201cobject\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tooba (@Tooba_Sd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tooba_Sd\/status\/1080854315559018497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In fact many women were the ones most irked by the idea of objectifying women&#8217;s bodies. Why do this to yourself, they ask:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Im all 4women empowerment and empowering other ladies through a profession.But y r we so obsessed 2sexualise everything that women do?! esp when we r trying 2move away from body shaming , grooming &amp; living in an instagram filter?! Can we keep this tone out please esp as a woman <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uLnpHyPpAb\">https:\/\/t.co\/uLnpHyPpAb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ebba Qureshi (@EbbaQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EbbaQ\/status\/1080848517843832834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Then of course, some made light of the post:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaPakiGuy\/status\/1080791425833488384<\/p>\n<p>Some people were of the view that is a thought-provoking post.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ama_mariam\/status\/1080912535933591552<\/p>\n<p>Just in case someone thought that the person who sent that tweet may not have meant what their tweet implied, well there&#8217;s no doubt now. The person that posted the picture with that caption really intended for it to be suggestive:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnumKhanIK\/status\/1080356893023973376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>Some people also came to the conclusion that the account was a fake one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fake account alert.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nighat Dad (@nighatdad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nighatdad\/status\/1081062099214893056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/SohaibVoice\/status\/1080854461801730049<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think of the whole thing?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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