An Open Letter of Apology to the Cast and Crew of Desperate Housewives
Dear cast and crew of Desperate Housewives,
TV shows come and go. Every so often, there comes a point when the life of a television series starts to flicker and grow dim. Worse, there is always a putrid uncertainty that comes with wondering if our favorite TV shows will even return as networks, with an insensitive and cruel disregard, toy with our emotions with executives waiting until the last minute to decide which shows live on and which shows drop from the lineup to their certain deaths.
Your show, Desperate Housewives, was one of the shows I wished death upon after its first season. And can you blame me? The inexplicably retarded storytelling, random betrayals and suicidally poignant interpersonal drama, as well as all the twists, turns, flips, flops and flops that happened midway through the 2nd season made the show really painful to watch. A pain which is, perhaps, worse than losing a loved one. Maybe even two loved ones in a bizarre hotel fire.
But still, I continued to watch. And I did so only because of Teri Hatcher and Eva Fucking Longoria.
There was actually a time when I was so obsessed with Teri and Eva that had either one of them asked me to quit my job, I would’ve said “done”; That had either one of them asked me to renounce my fleshly ways and dedicate my life to reading the bible, I would’ve said “done”; that had either of them asked me to embrace people from all walks of life and cultures and maybe give up sweets, I would’ve said “not until you give me a blowjob.” You get the point.
I was pretty smitten; so when I first heard about what many claimed to be a sweeping, insulting remark about medical schools in the Philippines made by Teri Hatcher’s character in one episode, I remained relatively indifferent to the issue.
Showing a modicum of class when you’re not required to is a tough act; so you guys can only imagine my surprise when your network issued a public apology for your little “racial slur.”
I know it should’ve been water under the bridge now but there seemed to be a call for blood and a major brouhaha even after your public apology was issued.
Now, I believe in the power of forgiveness and in the same manner that you apologized to us, I would like to apologize to you on behalf of my countrymen who do not have the intellectual capacity to understand satirized humor.
Since this is a rather rare opportunity for me, let me start off by apologizing for our country’s bastardization of Christianity by creating sects based on the twin principles of destroying other forms of faith and getting a tenth of their members’ monthly income. Oh how I digress.
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I want to apologize for Representative Bienvenido Abante and Senator Rodolfo Biazon for even thinking of banning Desperate Housewives in the Philippines. What they don’t know is that most of us assrape your intellectual property by buying entire seasons of your show on sub $2 pirated DVD’s or downloading the shit out of it from torrent sites. The latter is of course done using Taiwan-made OEM computers running on a pirated version of the latest version of Microsoft Windows.
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I apologize for our dangerous soft-heartedness and more importantly, our hypocrisy. I doubt if any of you watch Philippine Television, but we make a lot of sitcoms based on your TV shows where we invariably make fun of racial stereotypes including but not limited to the Indians being smelly, turban-sporting loan sharks; the Japanese being war shocked WWII veterans and the Chinese being chinky-eyed, greedy businessmen who own junk shops and magic barbels.
- I apologize for Manny Pacquiao. Nuff Said.
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And finally, I apologize for the list of bloggers below. If it’s any consolation, not all of us are retarded and some of us actually get it.
- Desperate Housewives jokes about Med Schools in the Philippines
- Second Class Citizens
- Anti-Filipino Slur on Desperate Housewives?
- Desperate Housewives’ Rather Insulting Remark about Medical Schools in the Philippines
- Desperate Housewives racial slur against Filipino medical practicioners?
- Who’s Desperate?
- Filipino Americans demand for apology from ABC and Desperate Housewives Petition
- Kick That Desperate Housewives Out
- Teri Hatcher of Desperate Housewives Insults Filipinos
- Desperate for Philippine Audience
- Desperate Housewives Maligns Philippine Med Schools
- Filams Protest US TV show – ABS-CBN News
- Reacting and Over Reacting to DH Script…
- Desperate Housewives on Philippine Med Schools
- Bloghopping
- My Take On This Desperate Housewives Shenanigans
- Another Perspective on the Latest Racial Slur Issue
- Of Racists and Slurs
- Desperate Housewives, Philippine Medical Schools and How Many of You Got it All Wrong
- What Did You Just Say, Teri Hatcher?
- About Desperate Housewives, Teri Hatcher and Med Schools
- Pinoys seek apology from ‘Desperate Housewives
- “Desperate Housewives” insults Filipinos
- Anti-Filipino remark on ‘Desperate Housewives’?
- Desperate Housewives’ [Season 4, Episode 1] denigrates Filipino Doctors
- Fil-Am Anger: Desperate Housewives’ Slur vs. Filipino Medical Schools
- Dok, sa Pilipinas ka ba nag-Med School
- Desperate Housewives on Pinoy MDs
- Desperate Housewives’ insulting remark to Philippine Med Schools
- Desperate Housewives Diss Philippine-Educated Doctors
- ‘tado to ah!
- Desperate Housewives Slur Vs The Philippines
- IT’S NOT FUNNY!
- Desperate Housewives Chenes
- Desperate Housewives maligns Philippine med schools
- Desperate Housewives Apparently Insults Filipinos: So What?
- Malacañang responds to Desperate housewives issue
- Teri Hatcher doesn’t want her vagina examined by doctor from Philippines
- Susan Mayer, Back Off!
- What Should You Do Before Condemning Desperate Housewives?
- Do You Really Want to Get Desperate Housewives’s Attention?
- Video Response to “Teri Hatcher Insults Filipinos”
- Filipino medics protest alleged racial slur in US TV show
- Fil-Americans protest ‘racist’ line in ‘Desperate Housewives
- Ermita: Palace to seek apology for ‘racial slur’ on US show
- DFA protests to US TV network over ‘racial slur’
- Touchy Subject | Filipino Americans demand for apology from ABC and Desperate Housewives
- Conan O’Brien Hates the Philippines Too!
- Dismal And Sound Logic: Reactions Regarding The Desperate Housewives Controversy
All told, I would like to urge you to go on and do your thing with Desperate Housewives. Our Television industry lives off your ideas. I mean, who knows, in the near future, maybe we can make a sanitized rip-off show which stars Cherry pie Picache, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Ruffa Mae Quinto and Kris Aquino. Remember Dawson’s Creek? Remember Tabing ilog?
It’s just that we, as a people in general, are very sensitive when it comes to our sense of nationalism. But then again, we can always count on Christian Bautista to work on that can’t we?
And now I have the link which I will use as my YM status for the next week or so.
Also, what a fattie.
Ditto.
What you said just about sums it up:
“Showing a modicum of class when you’re not required to is a tough act; so you guys can only imagine my surprise when your network issued a public apology for your little “racial slur.”
I know it should’ve been water under the bridge now but there seemed to be a call for blood and a major brouhaha even after your public apology was issued.
Now, I believe in the power of forgiveness and in the same manner that you apologized to us, I would like to apologize to you on behalf of my countrymen who do not have the intellectual capacity to understand satirized humor.”
I’m with you and those of us who “actually get it”.
I’m seriously wondering why I’m included in that list. Haha
Dude, I think you put your link to me on the wrong list.
I think Aloyloy’s (he’s a doctor) response was in the “getting it” column as well. Despite being a doctor, he asserted that the show did nothing to erode the status of Filipinos as the top exporter of health professionals to the US.
Nice. Hope ABC would reply to this letter.
BTW, What the hell does Manny Pacquiao got to do with anything? Lol.
A creative way of writing your opinion on the issue. I blogged about this, too. And I’ve read some of posts that are listed. I hope you don’t mind if I link this post.
My favorite post, though, would be that of Dr. Martin Bautista. Check it out: http://mbautistamd.blogspot.com/2007/10/whos-desperate.html
Hi, I see your points well and clear here and I agree to most of them.
However, for me it’s not just about the taking it as a ’satirized joke’ but actually, the content behind it. Throwing that line off a script eventually left a question of credibility in some medical schools here and sad to say, it may be generalized. I didn’t really see it as a racial slur although it is subject to a single race, we Filipinos (since we’re pinpointed). IMO, this ain’t an anti-Filipino thing, but more of an imperative that ’some med schools’ here sucks, big time! I know we have issues in our medical profession here but they deserve respect and telling the show that what they did was offensive, is just proper (of course with no overreactions).
Now I’m glad that they’ve already issued an apology and I know that a lot of us overreacted on this issue, including me (to an extent). Good thing is, I didn’t make a post about this for I wanted to listen first before I say my piece.
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I’m with you here, Mike.
Some Pinoys are over-reacting to the tiny racial slur like they haven’t commited any crimes of racial slurs in our very own television shows here in the country.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Pinoys have too much pride in them that sometimes they are too proud when there’s nothing to be proud about in the first place.
What’s worse there is I’m reading a lot of jolog posts, not to mention nonsense and bullshit, about the issue on Blogger, Xanga and Friendster Blogs.
to Jayvee:
“I’m reading a lot of jolog posts…”
— Hahaha. Somebody might get you for that. Hehe. But I do agree with what you said.
I’m one of the few who gets it so maybe I should’nt be on the list of bloggers you need to apologize for..
Thank you so much for linking me to your blog. It was my pleasure to read your thoughts about yet another issue that seems to have gotten out of hand.
I may not totally agree with your interpretation, but I can at least say that you were able to express yourself clearly, without any of the fluff that all too often clouds the writing and therefore the thinking of many bloggers.
Some of us can get too emotional, I guess, especially when we perceive that an insult has been thrown our way. Retarded freaks we may be. And some people, like you, would simply prefer to let such insults pass. Well, understandably, you won’t care to comment because such bs is beneath you.
Good thing I was linked to the wonderful blog of a non-retardate.
AWW I’m not in the list of bloggers. hehe
About the list: I just lifted it off someone else’s blog so don’t go “OMG IM ON THE LIST EVEN IF I AGREEDED WITH HIM WFT!? IM GONNA GO PEE MY PEE PEE PANTS NOW! SUICIDE!”
Plagiarism is an awesome awesome thing.
Also, I’ll respond to all your comments tomorrow. Sleepy time!
@prudence: hey wait, that’s a different Jayvee
Mike, check this out: http://mikevilla.com/
John LOLnon!
No need to apologize for me, but thanks!
Thank you too for apologizing for that Ultra-Morally-Upright and moral standards-imposing Congressman Abante.
Youre a Jerk!
SUCKER!
Gay,
No wonder you keep assraping eva longoria in your dreams. your girlfriend looks like she had a sex change. Know you won’t take offense since this is all above you.
Okay, I just KNEW it was a matter of time before the retards come commenting in droves. Well done Mike, you have attracted yet another batch of satirically-incapable idiots. Let’s wait for MOAR hate comments to pour in LOLZ!11
What happened to blog silence? I agree with you here though, I dont understand why pinoys made a big deal out of it.
@Helga : OMG!! i was LOLing for 10mins
Maybe, people who could not understand why the 30,000 Filipinos in the US mostly doctors and nurses and othe professionals petitioned for an apology is because they not doctors practicing in the US. maybe.. that’s why. It’s a fictional degradation of my profession, alright and fictional or not, when you are in the US, it’s hard not to get hurt…because the mere fact that WE ARE PHILIPPINE GRADUATES of some medical Schools ( by the way, I am a product of my dear Alma Mater , FEU DRNRMF) made us feel that it is what they thought of the Philippine Medical graduates. What you guys don’t know, we give our sweat and tears to be in the mainstream, head to head with our American colleagues. We have to prove ourselves 3x to 10 x more to get to be at the same level of them, …I am speaking for myself…as I am a practicing Family Physician of 24 years with out Malpractice suits, with 80% Whites/10% Hispanics/8% Asians/1 % Blacks as my patients. It’s not about NOTHING…We Filipinos, just like other immigrants always have to prove ourselves in America, and we are not going to allow to make fun of us who worked so hard to be where we are right now by just some BIMBO and an ignorant writer. So you Filipinos in the Philippines, you have to know that we Filipions here are more patriotic to stand for our being Filipinos. I don’t care if you don’t feel that way…but you have to respect the 30,000 people who sigend the petitions. Your 2 doctor friends are probably 2 brown skinned-doctors who think they are white!!!
FYI: in the first place, the writer was not informed on how a physician is able to practice in the USA. First, the foreign educated docs need to pass their countries’ board exam. Then they go to their countries’ residency program, Then apply to the US to get to the matching program, then if accepted, would have to pass the FMG’s exam. Then these docs will go to internship and 3-4 years of residency AGAIN. Then will take the US grueling board exams. NOW, do you guys get it?
It’s not about Diploma, you can have as many diplomas as you want, but if you are not SMART enough to go thorugh above….you’re not practicing in the US, and that’s the bottom line…HATCHER and the the show just INSULTED the hard working, licensed practicing Filipino MD’s in the US.
Mike, Ade, et al.
Hate comments? Wanton stupidity? I got my fair share of that (major shitload, I tellsses you) on my blog. I have MOARER!
Thank God I’ve read your post. I was thinking if I’m a disgrace to the Philippine nation because I’m not shouting for the show’s blood. Maybe because I’m so use to watching Americans insulting and making fun of their fellow Americans (Re: Bush, Lohan, Britney) in late night shows that I really don’t make a big deal out of it cause it’s obviously not a big deal for them.
I understand why the Philippine Medical industry is so insulted and hurt, it was like, where the hell did that come from? I’d be insulted too if some show said something crappy about Filipino video editors. But the network did issue an apology already and from last I heard, forgiveness is a good thing. They already have what you initially asked, why throw stones and ask for more…wait, what is more, anyway? Everyone should just calm down, the show and character is fiction and not an opinion. Teri Hatcher didn’t utter that remark, the writers wrote it (obviously) for her to say. My guess is they just randomly pick a third world country without actually thinking about it.
Let’s stop this and let it go.
The real most probable reason this thing went so far is her, the senate adjourned the ZTE hearings,
Arroyo is out of the country.
And local media needed someone to write about because of the continuing ratings war online and on TV.
This next two days it will about something else.
Like comedy central.
@jayvee f.
— hahaha, my mistake. I thought it was you.
@jayvee
— the comment can still apply to what you’ve said
I don’t know, If the filipino med guys in the US worked damn hard for where they are now, then why the hell would they get insecure with a one line joke. They call themselves patriotic? liars! it’s about the money. why don’t they go back to the philippines where they are needed and there is a major shortage of doctors?
Whatever that joke meant, it was a one time thing. People would forget. But it blew out of proportion because of just the 30,000 who got insulted? ridiculous!
MIKE = ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST…….CLASSIC
I’m so glad I have intellectuals in my feed reader, otherwise I would have pulled out all my hair in sheer frustration in this most recent “issue”
@Everett Now THAT is so uncalled for
Everett,
Real classy man, easy to say since you probably heard it all your life. I know you’ll take offense, your small minded ways have got your panties in a bind. Get a life dude, learn how to take a joke, its desperate housewives for crying out loud. Why don’t you put that anger to good use & fight for the filipinos in a positive way!
P.S.
Good move not commenting on such an ass, WTF, your girlfriends hot
P.S.
Mike, good move not commenting on such an ass, WTF, your girlfriends hot
If you think I’m the one exploding with anger or offense then suit yourself.
“There was actually a time when I was so obsessed with Teri and Eva that had either one of them asked me to quit my job, I would’ve said “done”; That had either one of them asked me to renounce my fleshly ways and dedicate my life to reading the bible, I would’ve said “done”; that had either of them asked me to embrace people from all walks of life and cultures and maybe give up sweets, I would’ve said “not until you give me a blowjob.” You get the point.”
It’s Desperate housewives. Exactly. I commented on Mr. mike villar’s said obsession with the show’s stars.
I go get a life now, learn to take a JOKE and practice anger management for THE FILIPINOS.
Bye!
Haha. if you don’t know the difference between a personal, low blow joke to a satirized one then don’t get a life. Get a gun and just shoot yourself in the head and do all of us a favor.
Seriously, what’s low blow to Mike Villar? We’re talking about the author of Atrocities here. If he gives himself the right to laugh at what random people from Friendster look like or call other bloggers “retarded” or “ignorant” because they have other opinions, SATIRE or not, then he should be able to take the same shit, no problemo.
We complained because we are Filipino Doctors in the U.S. who were offended. It questined our credibility and pride. If the producers/writers of the show did think it was referring to the NURSING exam fiasco last year then they are mistaken. Not Doctors. Hence the need to Correct it, lest we further propagate it (not based on facts or even fiction). I am happy with thee ABC apology. That it. No further. Other issues and racial slurs regarding the Philippines…might have some historical context…But MD is a noble profession, for it to be tainted by careless remarks..needs to be challenged and corrected. I am for free speech…but this was clearly a mistake on the writer. Now if you guys think that the petition was wrong. Then you do not understand us. If its regarding what was requested afterwards ex Donation…then i agree with you that it sounds too much. I praise all the Doctors who supported us. Also the non-doctors who helped. But let us keep it regarding Filipino MD and their schools. The rest(non-MD – who are opposed to the petition) cannot understand us anyway, so whats the use convincing them.
Aside from having a micro penis, I have this uncanny ability NOT to get insulted. ever.
But I am impressed at how many people would actually step up to defend me. All of you who did get free sexual favors from me.
And to those of you whose opinions differ from mine, I’d just like to say that you’re all wrong.
Also you’re all retarded and ignorant. And who knows? Maybe even fat.
I did not want to react further, but your last statement – was contradicting with each other (not to get insulted – then a last tirade of retarded and ignorant – Thats amazing! No wonder you are confused….I guess you have been confused ever since…including your gender…hahaha… you are funny nevertheless…
MDUSA,
It’s called wit and sarcasm. Two things you will obviously never really grasp.
Eva Fucking Longoria and Mike Fucking Villar? I didn’t know you were related.
There’s a movie right there – the Fuckings family reunion.
Why do we give an awful ton of shit in being Filipinos anyway? Pure and half-blood Filipinos in the US must learn when to accept apologies and move on. Being in the US, they should know how American humor works. I totally agree with what Mike said. The protests and anti-Desperate Housewives articles are overkill.
To MDUSA,
if your credibility and pride were seriously hit by that one-liner from Teri Hatcher, then just come back home.
To HIS Awesomeness,
Nice handle by the way….Unlike you we don’t run from our problems…Your Awesomeness (quite contradicting)
To Mike
Yep, You will definitely achieve success with your Zit and orgasms…
Anyways, its was nice while this lasted…The issue is over and done….I have more important things to do now….Ingat sa inyong lahat…Mabuhay !
Whoa, I just had to react on this one. After all I’m this blog’s biggest fan.
Hail the first person in the world who NEVER gets insulted! Get that, retards?
But Mike, I pity your fuckbuddy. You obviously don’t care enough to take offense even
if insults are directed at her.
Wait, was that satire? Then that excuses everything.
What fuckbuddy? I have one? Can I have her number?
Look who is running away now…
“I have more important things to do now….Ingat sa inyong lahat…Mabuhay!”
Oh wait, and since YOU’re my biggest fan, can I have YOUR number? I have load. kk tx.
Um. No? Let’s not forget that you’re abroad because you can’t make ends meet here.
Not being able to make ends meet = Problem.
Going to the US = Running away.
See what I did there? I just Modus Ponens’ed your pathetic little ass.
First I never go for guy to guy. I don’t know about you. But the clincher is your inability to maintain blog silence for a dead baby just to show off your witty, non-conformist views to the Filipino retards. And like they say, what happened to your taste in women? Always thought you’re the master with your Friendster series.
Now think of an even smarter reply to this one to save your shit’s ego. I’m done here. dun dun dunnn