Thursday, January 13, 2005
Airbrushed
I went in to the staff room today to find the boss and a couple of the teachers huddled over the table. As soon as they saw me they beckoned me over excitedly, urging me to have a look. The advert that they had been working on was finally ready and the boss gleefully pointed to Teddy's photo. Teddy's parents are Taiwanese, but he's from Mississippi and an all-American lad. God forbid any English teacher in Korea should look Asian, though. So they made a couple of minor alterations to Teddy's appearance.
They've coloured his hair brown, tinted the skin a little and given him a suit. I think they wanted me to be impressed by the whole thing when they showed me but I was absolutely dumbfounded. He looks like a mormon called Edmund, for God's sake!
My photo is unfortunately unaltered. I'm not particularly photogenic but in this one I'm a thin film of sweat away from looking like a stereotypical child molester. Not the face of a man you want anywhere near your kids.
A mormon and a paedophile. The public faces of our school. The ad campaign begins next week...
They've coloured his hair brown, tinted the skin a little and given him a suit. I think they wanted me to be impressed by the whole thing when they showed me but I was absolutely dumbfounded. He looks like a mormon called Edmund, for God's sake!
My photo is unfortunately unaltered. I'm not particularly photogenic but in this one I'm a thin film of sweat away from looking like a stereotypical child molester. Not the face of a man you want anywhere near your kids.
A mormon and a paedophile. The public faces of our school. The ad campaign begins next week...
# posted by Stuart Reid @ 9:00 PM 
