A Reaction Paper to Imelda
by Edissy Claudine T. Ramos
2009-33319
Unbelievable. That’s my first reaction to Imelda. She’s a shameless narcissistic attention-hungry first lady without a conscience. How could a first lady act like that, think like that and spend heaps of money like that? It’s unbelievable how she threw money for her lavish lifestyle here and there, hosted classy parties everywhere when her country-the country his husband led/”reigned” was suffering. She clearly purposely overlooked the poverty and pains of her country with a head turned back and held-high. She was so self-obsessed with beauty, the spotlight, and the luxuries that she was blinded. Her unbelievable thinking, principles, quotes were witty but stupid. She’s a lying fool who never deserved everything she had.
Yes, she may have initiated the building of a couple of institutions and establishments and she may have advanced arts and culture in her own way but that doesn't give her the right to spend too much - especially on thousands of shoes and outfits. She should have spent it on more meaningful long-term projects. Imagine how many classrooms could have been built, how many students could have gone to less-cramped schools, how many stomachs could have been filled, if her ‘investments’ on shoes and other material obsessions were properly thought of. She was insane, maybe still is.
It does not matter how Imelda and Ferdinand were, are, or will be nicely projected in media, articles, documentaries, I will still think of Imelda as the selfish, materialistic, shamelessly extravagant wife of the most horrible tyrant-dictator. Imelda-Ferdinand is the worst nightmare the country’s ever had. They could live a thousand lifetimes and still not deserve to be forgiven by their countrymen.
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