That’s why I posted my blog entry. I initially promised that I wouldn’t react to the issue anymore. However, reading some comments in which people lash at her because they say she’s a pig that’s why she’s got a “pig” behavior annoyed me. I only hear those kind of “comments” from: 1) kids having a playground fight, and 2) from uneducated people.

Reply to Prudence

Malu Fernandez called attention to her own bulk when she wrote that Emirates’ economy class seats ‘were so small I had bruises on my legs’.

When irate readers resorted to hitting her back by picking on her size, they were just taking her up on her own crass game of prejudice and humiliating others. Simply put: You call me stinky, I’ll call you fat.

Reply to samantha

I actually agree with you on this, it’s very argumentum ad hominem. That’s why I refuse to talk about it on my blog.

it can be because of our cultural notions of beauty, but this really shouldn’t be the case. I guess my stand would be blame her for what she wrote, but don’t attack her for her physical appearance because this has nothing to do with what she wrote.

Reply to aaron

I’m not svelte. My German husband is huge, fat, overweight. We’ve traveled on Emirates more than a dozen times, both in business and coach. But for crying out load, we’ve never, ever bruised or injured our legs on account of any diminutive plane seats! Tell me otherwise, and I would be the first to champion your cause for wider chairs on board!

Just be brave enough to say you agree with Malu’s blinkered, bigoted thoughts so I can invite other blog readers to visit this site and discuss in all thoroughness why prejudiced corpulent attacks against the sensibilities of hardworking OFWs must NEVER be tolerated at all cost, even if pegged on the premise of a very uncomfortable plane ride.

Regarding what Malu Fernandez wrote, there’s only one approach to the issue as far as I’m concerned - argumentum ad personam. Attack the tactless proponent to discredit her and her intolerant, discriminatory snide remarks that saw print in widely circulated publications. Besides, to stick to substance would just invite the discourse to move beyond skin deep. God knows what sort of maggots lie within Malu Fernandez’s adipose tissues.

Reply to samantha

Thanks for clearing that one out dementia. I and most of my brothers and sisters work abroad, too.

Let’s keep up the fight for and in behalf of millions of OFWs forced to live dire situations - leaving family behind, having to endure loneliness, bitter winters, discrimination, isolation, etc.

Let’s stand for what’s right. I know it would be convenient for others to just stay passive and let other people be at the frontline of battles. Thanks for making a stand, and even more thanks for letting that stand be known to others.

Reply to samantha