Oh No, She Did Not!
The Malu Fernandez “Apology”
When I heard that Malu Fernandez had already resigned and issued a public apology for attributing the niggly things that annoy her to a group of decent hard-working Filipinos, my reaction was, “She’s definitely a bigot but she has recognized the error of her ways so leave it at that. Let’s move on.”
But it was not an apology. At the very least, it was a thinly-veiled insult to the very people she had already offended. Instead of saying “I’m sorry for saying that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are crude, loud, and obnoxious,” she said that basically she’s sorry that OFWs are crude, loud, and obnoxious people. Furthermore, if they weren’t so lazy to read publications “thicker than a magazine,” they would realize that what she said was actually humorous in a tongue-in-cheek way.
Well, I guess those who referred to her as a pig should apologize in this manner: “We’re so sorry that you are such a pig.”
Of course, they would also have to sincerely apologize to the pigs. Unlike Malu Fernandez, pigs’ existence serves a very useful purpose. I mean, if we could find a way to cook the pig’s “oink” we would probably have another item in our pika-pika menu. Malu Fernandez on the other could hardly justify the air that she breathes, much less the water she drinks and the apparently copious amounts of food that she consumes.
Incidentally, what do pigs and Malu Fernandez have in common? That’s not a fair question. No blog has sufficient room for the answers.
How are pigs different from Malu Fernandez? For one, only pigs would be rightfully offended by the comparison.
But I digress.
It boggles the imagination why someone would take a cheap shot at what we correctly call our “modern day heroes.” Does she have a death wish? Apparently not, given her reaction to the death threats she received. Is she starved for attention? Maybe. We can use sociological, psychological, or anthropological tools to analyze this whole affair but I doubt if we’ll ever learn the method to her madness.
As for me, I prefer to follow the theory of Occam’s Razor in looking for the reason why she would do such an inane thing. Simply put, the theory states that the simplest solution to a problem is usually the correct one.
This is my conclusion: Malu Fernandez incurred the ire of so many people for the most insignificant reason (the inconveniences of her travel) simply because she prefers the taste of the kitchen staff’s spit on her food when she eats out; she wants extra froth in her cappuccino; and she likes her fruit shakes fortified [with “protein”].
The Malu Fernandez “Apology”
When I heard that Malu Fernandez had already resigned and issued a public apology for attributing the niggly things that annoy her to a group of decent hard-working Filipinos, my reaction was, “She’s definitely a bigot but she has recognized the error of her ways so leave it at that. Let’s move on.”
But it was not an apology. At the very least, it was a thinly-veiled insult to the very people she had already offended. Instead of saying “I’m sorry for saying that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are crude, loud, and obnoxious,” she said that basically she’s sorry that OFWs are crude, loud, and obnoxious people. Furthermore, if they weren’t so lazy to read publications “thicker than a magazine,” they would realize that what she said was actually humorous in a tongue-in-cheek way.
Well, I guess those who referred to her as a pig should apologize in this manner: “We’re so sorry that you are such a pig.”
Of course, they would also have to sincerely apologize to the pigs. Unlike Malu Fernandez, pigs’ existence serves a very useful purpose. I mean, if we could find a way to cook the pig’s “oink” we would probably have another item in our pika-pika menu. Malu Fernandez on the other could hardly justify the air that she breathes, much less the water she drinks and the apparently copious amounts of food that she consumes.
Incidentally, what do pigs and Malu Fernandez have in common? That’s not a fair question. No blog has sufficient room for the answers.
How are pigs different from Malu Fernandez? For one, only pigs would be rightfully offended by the comparison.
But I digress.
It boggles the imagination why someone would take a cheap shot at what we correctly call our “modern day heroes.” Does she have a death wish? Apparently not, given her reaction to the death threats she received. Is she starved for attention? Maybe. We can use sociological, psychological, or anthropological tools to analyze this whole affair but I doubt if we’ll ever learn the method to her madness.
As for me, I prefer to follow the theory of Occam’s Razor in looking for the reason why she would do such an inane thing. Simply put, the theory states that the simplest solution to a problem is usually the correct one.
This is my conclusion: Malu Fernandez incurred the ire of so many people for the most insignificant reason (the inconveniences of her travel) simply because she prefers the taste of the kitchen staff’s spit on her food when she eats out; she wants extra froth in her cappuccino; and she likes her fruit shakes fortified [with “protein”].
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