Walaw.
First things first. This post is about a message I just got in my inbox from someone named Maysa Elayoubi. Note that I do not know this person in any way and I have never had any correspondence with her. This is the literal content of the message:
“a*** fike w bl ordon taba3ek ,ele sene bl malakiye w kel kon akhra 3alam ,w 3nde chawfet balade lebnen bteswa kl l ordon w maleka.”
Rough translation: Screw you and screw Jordan. I have been in this country for a year and you are the crappiest people ever. I wouldn’t trade visiting Lebanon for all what your country and your king have to offer.
My first reaction was: walaw?! It has been some time since I last received hate mail and I must say this message was a refreshing comeback. It is entertaining to observe how some people think they can hide behind their monitors and slander others. Maysa here is obviously naive like that.
إنو ولو؟ أنا شو دخلني إزا الأردن مو عاجبتك يا روحي؟ لأ و مين ماسكك ما تروحي على لبنان أو أي مكان تاني؟ و بكل الأحوال, شو هالأدب و الأخلاق يا شقيقة؟
Hate mail makes me wonder, do the people who send it have healthy personalities? I think not. Because if they had balanced characters they would be more likely to take actual action, by getting organized and rallying for whatever case they are making, in productive ways. If anything, sending hate mail usually backfires and produces the opposite results by making its targets feel important and right. Needless to say, I have no fucking clue what case Maysa is trying to make in her message.
And I also suddenly feel important and right.
Random hate mail just like the message I am discussing here is the stupidest thing anyone can send to another person. I have several reasons for this opinion, and I will use Maysa Elayoubi’s logic as an example:
1- Maysa thinks she is complimenting Lebanon by dissing Jordan. In reality, she is a disgrace to her country.
2- Maysa thinks Lebanon and Jordan are at war with each other. In reality, she flunked her politics class.
3- Maysa thinks saying “screw you” would offend me. In reality, she has no idea how funny that sounds in Lebanese.
4- Maysa thinks she’s a bad ass patriotic girl. In reality, she is just a girl and therefore she does not have the genital equipment she used in her little meaningless profanity. The irony is killing me.
5- Maysa thinks it’s my fault she does not like Jordan and its people. In reality, it isn’t my fault.
6- Maysa thinks Jordanian borders are closed. In reality, she can move out any time she wants.
7- Maysa thinks I will not publish her email address. In reality, she is very mistaken.
So you see, for all of the above reasons I think Maysa is not particularly sharp. And I don’t think that now she feels very smart about the message she sent to me. Of course, Maysa Elayoubi could be just a handle, but handle or not it inspired this post and I am sure it will inspire many of you to have a private chat with her or to drop her a little email to tell her that we don’t think Lebanese people are proud of her behavior.
So without further ado, and for the sake of enlightening a sister about manners, I give you Maysa Elayoubi: mayssa_elayoubi@hotmail.com
Oh and, Maysa, don’t thank me for this lesson of cyber discipline. Walaw ya shaqeeqa?
I don’t think she is worth a minute of my time to send her an email, after all you have donemore than enough :D
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;" />hahaha.. I used to get hate mail all the time. Almost daily some idiot out there uses their minimal senses of clicking keys on a keyaboard and writing rubbish. <br /><br />I used to post their comments and full email addresses all the time on my site. They want to make a statement of hate and want it public. I gave them all the pleasure of the humiliation! :) <br />
<p>#3 is HILARIOUS!!!!! "sounds funny in lebanese"………….that’s soooo true LOOOL</p>
<p>btw way Hi tololy, I’m a new blogger and hope to see you visiting my blog!</p>
<p>5alas sam7heha, may be she got lost .h</p>
This post made my day :D
come on!!! how do you even know it’s authentic for chrissake? and even if it were so, why do you have to post it. who cares if there are a couple of assholes out there. why make an issue out of it. i am sure you can find a couple of Jordanians who will not speak kindly about Lebanon. so what. big deal. <br /><br />unless you know who sent this email for sure, you don’t know for sure. <br /><br />So if I sent you an email telling you how much I love Jordan, would you have posted it? I doubt it. <br /><br />Be a responsible blogger. <br />
Samar, dear, welcome to Tololy’s Box. Of course I have no way of telling if this person is really Lebanese, and I only relied on the accent of the message to determine that. It doesn’t matter what nationality is the person, I would still have posted this if the person was from China. <br /><br />You are right. The positive things I receive are usually not published, because they are intended to be personal and directed to me from kind people. This message here was anything but personal — it was stupid, malicious, and random. All of these three elements qualified it for publication –aside from its entertainment value.<br /><br />Love Jordan or hate Jordan, this is none of my business. Just do not go around swearing at random people in cyber space and maybe in reality. That’s the point of this post.<br /><br />And on responsible blogging, I am responsible for the writings I publish in this Box and it’s a matter of taste ultimately to like them or hate them. I cannot help you if you don’t like what I write, you have to help yourself to other blogs. Finally, by publishing this post, I was holding the person who sent that message responsible for her writings and actions as well. Responsibility is a two-way street, you see Samar?<br /><br /><br />
you don’t even know who sent that email. it’s so dumb to suggest that an email has an accent. anyone can fake that. you are very irresponsible.
Samar, it makes no difference if whoever wrote that is Lebanese or not. It doesn’t represent Lebanon or the wonderful Lebanese people. Its not only written accents that can be faked, but everything else. We don’t really have any way of knowing anyone is who they say they are on the internet, so we deal with the image that they represent.<br /><br />Tololy, I’m glad you published her email address, I would make it a link so that it gets picked up by the spam bots.<br />
samar I disagree with you……….I don’t think there’s anything irresponsible about tololy publishing that, she’s a personal blogger and not a journalist or a news reporter. If it’s not authentic or if the person is fake then who cares? that just means no harm is done.
<p>looool, you just made my day, now I can go to bed in peace ;)</p>
<p>Why are some people just so stupid? Don’t they know it is alright to remove the wrapping paper off their brain?</p>
<p>So stupid of her.. and so <u><strong>rude</strong> </u>as well..</p>
<p>she’s not worth a thing..</p>
<p>I did like that way u’ve answered especially the e-mail declarance one.. great.. how do u think if we all send her emails will she leave our Beloved Jordan and stop ‘her suffering’ and clean our country? would like to hope so..</p>
Good for you for responding to this. I’m repeatedly shocked by the things people write when they believe that they are somehow getting away with something because they hide behind an email address or the realm of the anonymous commenter. Maybe you’ve shamed this person into acting more responsibly, or at least into thinking twice before sending such utter sh*t to someone they’ve never met, just because they can.
she makes me sad, I make her mansaf cupcake now…<br /><br />It really makes me cringe to see how some people are so good at eating others’ flesh. Hate mate aren’t shortly annoying, but they have a lengthy effect on the receiver’s feelings and make him/her feel like crap.<br /><br />Maysa does not represent the Lebanese population,<br />yes she widely represents those of extremely ill personalities<br /><br />ya 3eib el shoom.<br />
Tololy, I just had to tell you! A few days after you posted this entry, someone left me several venomous, hateful comments. She had the same name as me, and found my blog because she googled her name. Instead of publishing her comments in the comments section, I wrote an entire post about it, including all of her comments (I got the idea from this post of yours, of course!). She came back to see if I’d posted her comments, and was so surprised by the way I’d done it that she actually wrote another comment, apologizing for her tone and saying that I had a right to my opinions. Can you believe it? I was shocked! :-O
<p>HI I M MAYSSA I M LEBANESE I LIVE IN JORDAN I LIKE JORDAN I HAVE NEVA SAY SUCH AS THAT THINGS EVEN IN MY COUNTRY BUT THE ONE WHO MADE THIS MAIL IS A VERY BAD PERSON I KNOW THAT BUT I CAN’T DO ANYTHING TO STOP THOSE KIND OF PPL THEY R BORN TO B LIKE A COPY PRINTED OF A DEVIL.</p>
<p>I DONT BLAME ANYONE OR DEFEND MY SELF COZ I KNOW THAT ISNT TRUE AND IF I SAID SOMETHING ABOUT IT SOMEBODY WILL BE SO HAPPY TO HERE THAT I M ABSET COZ …..IS DESTROYING MY LIFE.</p>
<p>FINALLY I M SORRY ABOUT THAT COZ I LIKE JORDAN AS MUCH AS JORDANIAN PPL LIKE IT AND AS MUCH AS I LIKE MY COUNTRY LEBANON.</p>