A context matter

My pink bunny ears pic has caused sensation and, for my surprise, has caused a series of events that has made clear some differences between what you may want to see and reality and its contexts.

Some weeks ago I received the following message related to my pic:

Juan Guillermo Guerrero
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=569734782
7:56am Apr 22nd
"jajajajajaj, salimos del closeeett, eso esta bien. ya era hora "
[“hahahahahah, out of the closet! Good! It was time!]

I don’t remember if he was a student of mine sometime but, even if he was, that doesn’t give him enough trust to make that kind of comments. Apparently he’s a student, to be a graduate soon, from the Escuela; it means that, if he was my student, it was about 4 years ago at least.

Less than a week ago I found my pic posted (Yes, it was stolen! It’s a valuable good! haha) by Diana Carolina Ojeda (http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000080&id=1040783066) on the ‘social’ group of the Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería. The footnote was something like:

"Look! Our ex-teacher!
I wonder why the guys who took his class didn’t turned out to be fag….

I have less idea about her. At the Escuela there are no records of her, so I don’t know why she’s calling me “our ex-teacher”. I don’t remember her for intellectual or physical merits. At least I know she knows how to use a computer, because she stole my pic and posted it on a Facebook group without asking for permission. That’s why I had to ask the Facebook people to remove the pic because of the copyright, due to the group manager didn’t consider it pertinent. Point for the Facebook people.

In some way it’s flattering that my ex-students remember me. That they do it for the right or wrong reasons, it’s their problem, but it tells me that they learned something, even if it wasn’t what I was intending to teach them. It’s more than enough to know that some of my ex-students do it for the right reasons.

It makes me uncomfortable that those who do it for the wrong reasons still are chewing them, feeding whatever they’re feeling. But it makes me uncomfortable for a while, and I’m over it easily. In the end, it’s their problem, just like what they think they know about my private life. I live my life the way I want, and I don’t care who’s fine with it and who’s not, and even better, it doesn’t have to be a public matter.

I’ve always avoided mixing my work performance from my private life. So, it doesn’t have to interest anyone or affect anything. If my private life interests someone in my work life, that’s because wants to be part of it and that would only happen when won’t affect my work performance.

On the other side people’s response here was nice and it’s been cause for conversation and fun, but never of attack. Response from average Colombian people has been scandalized and defamatory. Once more, these issues have given me more to think about the thinking of the average Colombian people.

Have a look to my pic original photo album:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2613736&id=815290197

PS: I’ll print and sign some copies of my pic to sell if there are any offers, hahaha.