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Statement from Malu Fernandez on the OFW Controversy

Proyektong Malu Fernandez

Inilulunsad ng Tinig.com ang Proyektong Malu Fernandez, na mula sa mungkahi ni Benj Espina at sumusunod sa tradisyon ng mga writing project ng Digital Filipino.

Si Malu Fernandez ay isang kolumnistang nagsulat ng kontrobersyal na artikulong nang-insulto ng mga OFW. (Basahin ang unang pahina at ikalawang pahina)

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By: Ederic | 2007/08/18 | Paanyaya - Tinig.com | Trackback | Comments [RSS 2.0]

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  1. JM
    Comment by JM | 2007/08/18 at 21:34:08

    Hehehe it has now come into fruition!

    Here’s my blog entry about the issue:
    http://jmtuazon.freehostia.com/2007/08/18/the-malu-fernandez-story/

  2. kurokuroko
    Comment by kurokuroko | 2007/08/19 at 00:36:24

    http://kurokurokoto.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/nang-magsabog-ang-impiyerno-ng-kakupalan-sa-mundo-siya-ang-nakasalo/

  3. carl
    Comment by carl | 2007/08/19 at 19:14:22

    http://exposedvanity.blogspot.com/2007/08/im-not-reading-any-thicker.html
    found this and i think it’s nice.

  4. Coy
    Comment by Coy | 2007/08/19 at 19:15:04

    Pareng Ederic, maaari bang video blog? Narito ang aking ginawa. Simple lang naman: http://cokskiblue.blogspot.com/2007/08/episode-18-paglipas.html

  5. BatJay, Ang Demonyo ng Southern California
    Comment by BatJay, Ang Demonyo ng Southern California | 2007/08/20 at 00:22:53

    http://kwentongtambay.com/?p=1427

    parang hindi kasi maganda na sabihan na mukha siyang baboy dahil mataba siya (which is what you read in a lot of the blog posts about her) kaya gumawa ako ng entry na mala indios bravos ang dating.

    sa tingin ko kasi, pag may nag bad mouth sa ating mga OFW, kailangan tumbasan ito ng mga positive na kwento.

  6. Jae
    Comment by Jae | 2007/08/20 at 09:59:13

    Here’s mine:

    http://jaefever.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/bitter-spiteful-snob/

    And here are others that I know of:

    http://selvo.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/mahaderang-matapobre-sa-ofws/

    http://taroogs.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/elitista-101/

    http://gbenjamin.blogspot.com/2007/08/asar.html

  7. Ako Gago
    Comment by Ako Gago | 2007/08/20 at 10:59:38

    Yan tabachoy na yan dapat dyan sinusunog kasi may sakit yan para di na kumalat ang epidemic na yan pagtapos sunugin ilag-lag sa bunganga ng bulcan para tunaw agad……

    Eto ang sulat ko para sa hayop na yan!

    http://akogago.blogspot.com

  8. Kid Kilatis
    Comment by Kid Kilatis | 2007/08/20 at 12:17:49

    In the immortal words of Bitoy — “Malu Fernandez….. YARI KAH!” Wahahahahahaha…..

  9. Prudence
    Comment by Prudence | 2007/08/20 at 15:50:13

    Show Malu Fernandez What ‘Wit’ Is: Be Intellectually Mean
    http://tesstermulo.com/2007/08/18/show-malu-fernandez-what-wit-is-be-intellectually-mean/

  10. Joe Taroogs
    Comment by Joe Taroogs | 2007/08/20 at 16:39:44

    ang website pala ng People Asia Magazine ay — http://peopleasia.multiply.com/ — at pwedeng mag-iwan ng reklamo sa guestbook nila. may ilan nang galit na readers na gumawa nito. Kayo, type niyo? :-)

  11. Jun Macarambon
    Comment by Jun Macarambon | 2007/08/20 at 18:43:18

    http://www.paradisephilippines.morofocus.com/blog/fire-malu-fernandez-boycott-manila-standard-and-people-asia-mag.html

    http://moslemenjr.macarambon.com/ang-ofw-at-malu-fernandez-isang-elitistang-manunulat/

    nag comment sa akin ang editor ng Manila Standard…. hehe. seguradong nagkakagago sila sa issue na eto.

  12. Political Jaywalker
    Comment by Political Jaywalker | 2007/08/21 at 07:25:32

    If you guys think it will enhance your entry on this project feel free to right click the HALL of SHAME image and download at this entry titled: More on The Diva or was it Di Na Bale (Never Mind) Malu Fernandez (Updated)

  13. http://jester-in-exile.blogspot.com/2007/08/heres-wishing-malu-fernandez.html
    Comment by http://jester-in-exile.blogspot.com/2007/08/heres-wishing-malu-fernandez.html | 2007/08/21 at 13:47:18

    [...] The jester-in-exile (JEM): (aside to camera) Hello, friends, you’re with the jester-in-exile, and welcome to another episode of Life of the Rich and Shameless. As you all know, anybody who’s become a common servant of sorts — waiter, bartender, busboy, jester — in places where the aristocrats hold court is familiar with the different personalities of the alta de sociedad. Who better to smell the stench of their shit than us blue-collar folk who clean their bowls and wipe their asses for them? [...]

  14. jhay
    Comment by jhay | 2007/08/21 at 20:10:42

    Sige, isasama ko ang sinulat ko.

    Bad Cholesterol, very bad cholesterol

  15. Franz
    Comment by Franz | 2007/08/22 at 17:09:53

    eto ba ung website ng baboy?

    http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=5282975

  16. Jheng
    Comment by Jheng | 2007/08/22 at 19:45:22

    Heto po ang aking reaksyon:

    Lttile Girl Blues –> http://sjkmanalo.blogspot.com/2007/08/ofw-snob.html

  17. sarah
    Comment by sarah | 2007/08/23 at 06:25:22

    http://habulin-mo-ako.blogspot.com/2007/08/this-is-for-malu-fernandez.html

  18. salve
    Comment by salve | 2007/08/23 at 15:45:30

    http://salvacion.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/another-case-of-misplaced-brain/

  19. Kid Kilatis
    Comment by Kid Kilatis | 2007/08/23 at 17:01:41

    Tumatalab na yata ang kampanya — napilitan nang maglabas ng opisyal na pahayag ang Manila Standard Today addressing the Malu Fernandez Scandal! see

    http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=connieVeneracion_aug23_2007

  20. dentorrecampo
    Comment by dentorrecampo | 2007/08/23 at 17:39:44

    This Malu Fernandez perfects the argument for not allowing demi-socialites and pseudo-writers from spreading their vile, especially to be perpetuated in print (and now online). The article was reaching nowhere from the beginning–such childish tantrum-like excretions like “I hate the beach, the sand, too many bugs, I am so not into roughing it up” simply has no place in a travel journal. Why any publication would see it print as a serious write-up, I have no clue. It’s been garbage from the start.

    Upping her annoyance ante, this so-called Filipina threw plain insult over the lowliest of reasons, the smell of OFWs. I don’t know how she smells but her soul did come out in that article and it reeks of shallow ingratitude and plain bull, nowhere equaling the scent of true hard work. Her prejudice is her ignorance.

    There is only one word that befits this so-called traveler’s effort at expressing what could have been a true dream vacation: waste…of space, of mind, of time. What a sad, sad soul with her balloon of an ego keeping her from seeing the true meaning of life.

  21. aliaskapopoy
    Comment by aliaskapopoy | 2007/08/24 at 15:48:56

    http://aliaskapopoy.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/2007/08/about_an_articl.html

  22. Marge Tadeja
    Comment by Marge Tadeja | 2007/08/24 at 18:27:32

    Please include mine!

    And excuse me, the kind of writing Malu Fernandez has is not at all “journalistic.” Otherwise, she should have slashed her wrist right then and there!

  23. Woobie
    Comment by Woobie | 2007/08/25 at 12:34:33

    http://woobie.pinoygaming.net/indignation-how-a-rich-filipina-looks-down-on-overseas-filipino-workers/

  24. benj
    Comment by benj | 2007/08/27 at 13:04:33

    here’s my post, Ederic. :)

    http://www.atheista.net/?p=381

  25. keith
    Comment by keith | 2007/08/28 at 20:55:21

    ang coment ko dito ay marami, kasi unang una parang sobrang trying hard kasi ung babae eh… kaya feeling ko tuloy parang katulad lng din sya sa mga taong kasama nya sa economy class airplane. Hindi lang sya isang trying hard na babae, pero feeler pa kasi sinabi sa kwento, habang nasa airplane sya, pinagyayabang nya pa ang kanyang mga alahas. Bilang isang magaaral ng taga csb, syempre halos lahat ng tao ay my kaya, kaya, pag may ganitong sitwasyon, para sa atin or para sa akin, wag ng magyabang pa db? kasi kung ano man ang meron tayo ay imbis na ipagyabang ay mamahagi na lang sa iba.

  26. Robert Bolisay
    Comment by Robert Bolisay | 2007/08/28 at 23:10:42

    I just want to share the post of Jorge Cosgayon
    in his blog regarding this issue.

    (source: http://farfromneutral.com/exodus/issues/we-have-feelings-too-you-know/#comment-11998 )

    Miss Fernandez,

    There is a line between being hilariously offensive, and being just offensive, and it’s not a thin one. We know it for what it is, and we know it’s best to keep such thoughts to ourselves or shared only with others of similar disposition. It’s called tact. Other terms, like “good judgment”, “sensitivity”, or “not-having-shit-for-brains” may also be used. It’s a fairly common practice to people not named “DOJ Secretary Raul Gonzales”.

    Well, you crossed that line. And judging from your initial article as well as your “apology”, you are aware of that fact. You knew it when you were writing your article, and you definitely know it now. Because some things are better left unsaid. Think it all you like. Snicker about the other 95% amongst your friends all you want. We care even less about what you do than you think. But you shouldn’t have gone and said it.

    Because that’s just plain offensive.

    Excuse us for not being born with a silver spoon. Excuse us for not being able to afford your “culture”. You see, we actually need to work for a living. What luxuries we have, blood, sweat and tears were spent to acquire. Ours is a culture that was forged in our reality, our situation. We do not aspire to live the lives that are beyond our means, nor wallow in cultures not our own. We like what we like, and we are what we are.

    But do not presume for even a second that you are better than us. Do not think for a moment that you know us. And don’t you dare put on airs.

    You wear your social status, deserved or otherwise, like a crown, thinking it makes you better, smarter, more entitled. It does not. You confuse — proudly — socioeconomic brackets with intellectual capacity, and many have disabused you of that notion. Here’s some more.

    Our lives are also rich and colorful, and we experience the same breadth of emotions as you. Those of us that have the time or the inclination read books heavier than your boobs and thicker than your skin. We enjoy the sublime flavors of isaw, goto and the squid kebabs in Quiapo as much as you would your caviar, saffron-laced paella or whatever it is people like you eat. We appreciate not having to wait too long in line for the MRT with as much enthusiasm as you appreciate not waiting too long for your baggage to be checked in on one of your jet-setting flights. We greet friends and relatives just as warmly as you greet the elites you suck up to.

    Just because you are higher than us your the social ladder doesn’t mean you’re better. It means you’re lucky. We do not deserve to be dismissed, least of all publicly. We are proud, and rightfully so. We do not deserve to be humiliated unjustly simply because of what we are. We are thinking breathing creatures not unlike you. We must be respected, and protected, never rejected, as all must be. We are somebody.

    Your moment of Zen:

    I Am
    Somebody
    I Am
    Somebody
    I May Be Poor
    But I Am
    Somebody
    I May Be Young
    But I Am
    Somebody
    I May Be On Welfare
    But I Am
    Somebody
    I May Be Fool
    But I Am
    Somebody
    I May Be Small
    But I Am
    Somebody
    I May Make A Mistake
    But I Am
    Somebody
    My Clothes Are Different
    My Face Is Different
    My Hair Is Different
    But I Am
    Somebody
    I Am Black
    Brown
    White
    I Speak A Different Language
    But I Must Be Respected
    Protected
    Never Rejected
    I Am
    God’s Child

    Rev. James Brown

  27. Robert Bolisay
    Comment by Robert Bolisay | 2007/08/28 at 23:19:25

    Here’s one good read also,

    posted by joselion in peoples asia magazine multiply blog

    To: MALU Fernandez.

    I am a proud son of an OFW who at one time worked as a nanny here in Canada,she worked her ass off and sacrifice a lot to support us and sponsor us out of the Philippines,she went back to school,finished her studies at the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO as a chemest,and she is the other chemest responsible to make the “Axe ” perfume that you’ve downgraded. Moneywise my mother makes a lot more dollars than you are making and you will be making in pesos,and yet she never and I never heard her maligning her fellow OFW instead she help them and give them funds to go back to school in hopes that they will follow her footsteps,my mother is one of the elite chemest in the pharmaceutical Industries,and yes she still likes to travel in economy class and mingle with the poor stinky AND CHEAP OFW that you just maligned,because she is not a pretentious woman,and she still calls herself a poor OFW,Take note Malu Fernandez my mom drives a ferrari and owns a million dollar mansion,she picks up and drive around her fellow OFW to some Places,and some of her fellow OFWs lives in her million dollar mansion,my question to you is how much money and how smart do you think you are to classify yourself above those cheap and stinky OFWs?.and other than maligning those heroes of the philippine economy,what positive things that you did to help your countrymen and women other than loathing at them for there misfortunes?,and dont forget,keep yourself in shape you look like a pig,yes you are a diva to some oinky swines you probably smell like them too.bye oinky diva

  28. techie
    Comment by techie | 2007/08/30 at 14:20:16

    I found one author that decided to defend Ms Malu F. Read it at

    http://mabinihall.com/index.php/2007/08/29/malu-fernandez-hate-ugly-filipinos/

  29. Lester Cavestany
    Comment by Lester Cavestany | 2007/09/07 at 00:44:10

    I hope we can learn to forgive Malu Fernandez. I wrote an entry about her article and I hope you can find time to read it. It’s entitled “One Voice (An OFW’s reaction to Malu Fernandez’s “From Greece to Boracay”)” and I posted it here: http://lestercavestany.com/?p=10

  30. the jester-in-exile
    Comment by the jester-in-exile | 2008/02/01 at 00:38:17

    something has come up that makes malu’s assault on OFW dignity seem trivial.

    my post on it here.

    spread the word. OFWs under assault… this time, by the government.


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