Death threats forced Malu Fernandez to resign?

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Malu Fernandez should be killed. Otherwise, she should stop being Filipino.

it’s a a sad reality, i have encountered a lot of malu fernandez in my life. i am now in the u.s. also have been an ofw for over ten years. when you look at people like malu fernandez, you can immediately discern ang pinanggalingan niya or at least ang background at mentality niya at ang kinalakihan niya. nakakaawa ang ganitong mentality actually, you can imagine how the real genuine rich people listed in forbes list feel about her. or also, how the god-fearing, genuinely humane people must think about such a heartless creature ano? mababaw ang isip at kaligayahan. hindi sanay. walang diyos kung hindi karangyaan.

and to actually consider her physical appearance and the way she poses in the pictures, parang isang deprived na creature na ngayon lang nakatamasa ng sarap. come on guys, tayong mga educated and coming from buena familia, we pity this kind and instead pray for them. people like malu fernandez need our prayers, pasalamat tayo hindi natin sila kautak and let’s pray na sana maayos ang pagiisip nila.

other people do not laugh or make fun of ofw’s for wearing axe or cheap colognes, who sacrifice to earn a living, they make fun of creatures like malu fernandez who are nothing but skin deep,socially starved and desperately physically lacking, nothing else. malu fernandez personifies the typical mentality, attitude and grasp of thinking, that made the philippines and filipinos poor, poorer and poorest. not to mention tasteless. look at the face…. it says it all.

I just read a couple of entries and of cours her article of flying back and forth to Greece and Boracay, etc., etc., bla bla bla. – Jet Set Life-

Well, as a pinoy living in Germany I truly have to admit that this article is a piece of crap. Malu Fernandez should be thankful for living a “good life” in comparison to millions of other pinoys.

It was a pity reading that poor Malu seems to think she is something better than the average pinoy just because she is wearing Louis Vuitton, Prada and having a make up case stuffed with different sorts of colors and hair accessories. You know what, Malu? I can easily fly back and forth on my own, with my stylish and rich friends. I can visit every single european country in just a click. I can join the best parties with all of the german/ european stars since I’m working in the media branche where these parties are planned nearly daily. So what? Do all these things make me a better person? As an educated journalist it is a shame that even the thought of writing articles like that came into your mind. What were you thinking? You have to built up your ego anew, my dear. Such a tremendous philippino disgracefulness.
No wonder that you receive death threats, Miss Malu. But I guess these won’t be that bad for you since you have the ability to fly to Greece or somewhere else were you can escape them. Go home!

So sad to hear you are defending her. Do you really think the OFWs will bother to kill her as you presumptously stated in your blog? I will not even dare sit beside her, much more let her skin brush against mine. There is no excuse for what she did, and you siding with her is totally ridiculous. I hope one day we won’t be coming across each other, because I know I could never tolerate your attitude.

i cant say im having doubts about what to say regarding this OFW article from Malu Feranandez, see guys, i know that part of what she’s saying is the reality but the fact that she does NOT need to make a big impression about that, coz its a natural response from us PEOPLE that in any case we’ve heard of such – we do normally react in a way to defend our side and to those who were given sh*t on their shoulders.She have made an exaggerated article about her possessions in life, her work, the so called luxuries that she gets but how rude it was for her to degrade our OFWs – has she or have we already forgotten the stories of OFWs who have suffered alot from their foreign employers? Does she even know how hard it is to earn money? maybe not coz she belong to a rich family.. (rich from the luxuries but lacks manners!)
I have seen alot of our kababayans who are domestic helpers, you can even feel their fears, their lonliness, their sufferings of being away from their own family, chosing somebody else’s children to take care of rather than their own… She or not even one of us can judge the OFW just bcoz they exhibit thru their accessories, at least they dont do it like what Malu Fernandez have done! i guess i can only say that they are just proud to see that hard work really pays off!#
so leave the OFWs alone ms. Porky!
To my Fellow OFW – we salute you for your bravery, for working hard for your family as well as for your country!
to Malu Fernandez – hope you have learned your lesson, that money is NOT about Everything, its better to be wealthy in manners than the things that fade, never under estimate someone who have gone thru a lot, you may think this people are small but to tell you the truth they are bigtime

To Angel: Hindi lahat ng mayaman ay matapobre. Ang pagiging matapobre ay nasa ginagawa ng tao so pwedeng matapobre ang middle class person sa kapwa nila middle class din. Middle class na rin siguro ako ngayon pero nakapag-aral ako dahil sa scholarship lang. Then I started meeting all sorts of rich people (and other people) and I have not met a rich person who is matapobre (at least not in front of me). I actually experienced being discriminated by those who were not really rich but so happen to be well off than others who they though that were lower than them because of the way the person looks. Kasi, I like to feel confortable in the way I dress so I don’t care much about designer clothes. But of course hindi nila isinulat ito for everyone to read and they learn their mistake once they learn more about the person who do not care much about what they wear.

She is still writing and i hope sensibly now:
http://www.inquirer.net/verbatim/retained.JPG

well to make it more “Hilarious” why not make a CANON story for her. Since sikat si MARIMAR gawan natin siya ng “MALU-MBA” tapos yung alaga niya imbis na Aso (Fulgoso) isang biik si PIGOSO hahaha =) ayuz ba

She’s like Willie R. now, making all of the paawa stuffs and the like. She should have just put her feet on the shoes of the OFWs first before she indulged herself into writing such horrid things. Maybe she had a terrible experience with an OFW or “worse” (for her) she was a former OFW like working in the Middle East, and if she wasn’t that “CHEAP” how da hell did she knew that the perfume of the OFWs was AXE and I don’t believe that wearing AXE as a perfume makes some one cheap noh haller?? Yes we can and we should forgive her she’s just a victim of a circumstance in which she had no chance of escaping just imagine she never grew up with all those BLESSINGS and after all if not for her we would not REALIZE the “Hardships” of our comrades working abroad, with all of these comments I must say, damn… You really love this country =)

correction on my previous post.. it was dona victorina de espedana.

if a country is attacked, its people must defend, to the death if needed. our ofws were attacked. thus, we must defend.

what she did is serious. its no joke. apology is not enough. her resignation is an escape rather than punishment. punishment must be real. we must put her in jail or create a jail for her through our mails.

please don’t make excuses for her. let her answer for her actions. let her learn to be as brave as our ofws.

Peace with you all!

“Let the one among you who is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at her.”
(And “Let anyone who is without sin, throw another evil word at her.”)

“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”

You have heard that it was said to your ancestors, “You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment. But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment……..

“Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.”

“Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. “

“And I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”

“Whoever rejects me and does not accept my words has something to judge him; the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on the last day, because I did not speak on my own, but the Father…..”

“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

“Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

AMEN.

I don’t think it’s beyond her to claim getting “death threats” because that’s a sure way to generate sympathy from the public — especially from those who fancy themselves as being “not of the mob.”

Cold, yes. But True.

I think the death threats part of the issue is overblown.

Yes, Malu did something to insult the OFWs and Lynch mob was brought in. What’s wrong with the issue is that too many people jumped in without taking the issue aside from it’s face value, hence the hate mail/posts etc.

Malu has already resigned and I doubt we’ll be seeing her in any other publication, unless she decides to use a pen-name and hide behind it and the issue should be over but the Lynch mob is still seeking her out.

To those thinking what has happened to Malu was so appalling that she deserves pity, pleas analyze the situation first. She tried to defend her article by acting so-high and mighty branding her work as ‘Satire.’ Satire is a well-thought of form of criticism and her article definitely fails to conform to that.

On the lighter side of things I’ve made an interesting post about people included in the issue. 6 ways to become famous online

everyone is so much overwhelmed with exaggerations, and exaggerated words.

i hope this case will now be closed.

death threats are too much?????

where are the death threats? show me the death threats! she was the one who claimed there were any in the first place. kinda hard to believe, but that’s just me.

and stew she shall.

First of all, I would like to thank MALU FERNANDEZ for her article, lahat naman ng sinabi nya ay KATOTOHANAN. The TRUTH HURTS diba? At ano ang TOTOO? The TRUTH is ang KABULUKAN sa MUNDO. The struggle between “the HAVE” and “HAVE NOTS”, the poor “OFW’s” and the rich “SOB’s”, the “COMMON PEOPLE” and the “ELITISTAS”. The truth is most (not all) rich people are really insensitive and insulting to the poor or the middle class, believe me I know. I came from a middle class family, nag-aral ako sa isang maliit na school noong elementary and after graduating I transferred to an exclusive school sa makati, dito ko na naranasan ang DISCRIMINATION and INSULTS from this so-called ELITISTAS. I felt kung hindi mo sila kasing YAMAN, you don’t have the right to be there. Some of the RICH really seems to have NO HEARTS, walang awa talaga kung magbitiw ng salita. Parang they can get away with anything dahil MAYAMAN sila. Still I have no bitterness nor hatred, I just felt sorry that rich people are mostly like that, GOOD on the OUTSIDE and real BAD on the INSIDE. I just want to say that I know it is not easy to FORGET, but definitely we have to FORGIVE. Let’s pray that all change for the better and follow GOD’s commandments, not just a few, but ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS. Its time to let GO and let GOD decide…. Truly the LORD said “Blessed are they who are POOR for they shall inherit the land.” And “It is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than for a RICH man to enter the KINGDOM of HEAVEN. AMEN

MISS MALU WANG NI HAW MA? cOME RIDE MY PLANE EH? I NEED TO BALANCE ECONOMY CLASS BECAUSE ONLY FIRST CLASS TICKETS BUY SO NOBODY IN THE BACK DOON KA HA? HEHE. MASYALO KA ATA TEK SLEEPING PILLS NO? TAMA TAMA TULOK KA LANG FLIGHT HE PARA HINDI MO AMOY SARILI MO BAHO. HEHE

death threats? and you actually fell for that? With her newfound infamy, it is downright obvious that she wants people’s sympathy. ^I agree with Victor, maybe she mistook people’s “lilitsunin” comments (or “acerbic wit”) as “death threats”.

as an afterthought, i guess the author just realized what an a$$ she’d become. when a realization such as that dawns on you, it’s better to retreat in silence. frankly, her articles reek of pride and arrogance and contempt for the masses which cannot be justified by implied humour.

sus! kumukuha lang yan ng simpatiya para sya ang magmukang biktima..

big question is,.. is their proof that there were death threats.. I’ve read a lot of insidious and highly insulting comments,… but really now.

the only person who said that there were.. was Malu Fernandez, and that’s not really a reliable source.

I am not an OFW and as such I don’t feel the pain of the insult but I thought the reactions were out of proportion. It was like an angry mob ready to lynch Malu Fernandez. No doubt she was very insensitive in what she said but we shouldn’t react the Taliban way.
Calling her a pig, etc. wasn’t exactly elevating the debate. All those people calling her names were lowering themselves at the same level of Malu Fernandez. They are hardly better than her.
There are better ways to show your disdain for someone.

Is it a victory for the blogging world? Is it a victory for democracy? I don’t think so.

It just shows how quickly people are manipulated and it shows that OFW are a very powerful group.

@Dave: That’s very true. I do believe in freedom of speech but I also believe in being responsible for your actions. That’s the problem with some commenters. They act as if they’re beyond scrutiny. I mean, I don’t like what Malu Fernandez said. But sadly, many of those who reacted have gone way below her level of thinking. Aside from the Bloggers Code of Conduct, we need a Commenters Code of Conduct!

If these death threats were serious then she should have reported them to the police to investigate. We cannot control what people do, if they cross the line, that is beyond anyone’s control.

The problem is: are Philippine authorities capable of tracking down these individuals who threatened her? What is the nature of these death threats? Via e-mail, phone, etc.? If she got the threat, there is a paper trail.

I am not too convinced that the threats were anything serious — because if your life is threatened you don’t quit your job, you report it to the police.

I’m really not that attuned to the philippine blogging community as I only learned about all this brouhaha on the news last night.

She may have been trying to be satirical and ended up sounding malicious and petty. Granted her article may have been more at home in a spoiled teenager’s blog instead of a widely circulated publication, but death threats just show how close minded and violence oriented some people are. These are the kind of people that tend to shoot you for scratching their car accidentally.

Couldn’t these email threats be traced?

It must be noted that Kathy Sierra has had infinitely more contributions to humanity than Fernandez. ^_~

But I sure hope she’s learned her lesson, and her “last” words weren’t just for show. In the same vein, I hope the death threats weren’t just exaggerations of the hate-filled entries that filled the blogosphere.

I received a few blog comments with Malu’s personal information like her home address, phone numbers and such — it’s a good thing I moderate the comments on my blog and I don’t pubish anyone’s personal information. I had to write a disclaimer here and there because some of the comments were downright disturbing. In the end, I actually feel sorry about Malu and what she’s going through.

I understand the outrage and all but clearly a few individuals have crossed the line. It’s unfotunately that there’s not much one can do about it. It really shows how mean people can be.