Apr 4, 11
It’s over. It’s finally over. “Bad” is no longer the “new good.” Or so I read, a few mornings ago in a FoxNews article entitled “Bad Girls Are So 2008: Hollywood Embraces the Goody Two Shoes Brigade.” Join me in a moment of silence as we lift up a collective prayer of thanks and celebrate the end of the Hollywood parade of pantie-less popstars and rehab relay.
Here is a short snippet from the article:
Four years ago, the New York Post printed a photo of Spears, Lohan and Hilton out clubbing with the headline “Bimbo Summit.” The inside read: “3 Bimbos Of The Apocalypse: No Clue, No Cares, No Underwear (Spears, Lohan, Hilton).”
Little did we know we were witnessing the bad girls’ zenith.
Spears subsequently went into total meltdown, and now has her affairs controlled by her father. Lohan can’t get a movie to save her life, and will go to jail if convicted of grand larceny in the alleged theft of a necklace. Hilton is but a shadow compared to her reality-show “what exactly does she do?” replacement, Kim Kardashian.
In their place: The Goody Two Shoes Brigade. (Click here to read the article in full.)
Even more interestingly, the article mentions a firm, Marketing Evaluations, that calculates the “Q score” for each celebrity which is a quantitative measurement of a personality’s overall likability. A company who is considering a particular celebrity for product endorsement, relies on the “Q score” for guidance. The article notes: “The Q scores measure how likable celebrities are. Bad girls like Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Demi Lovato’s positive Q scores are dwarfed by their negative scores, indicating the public’s distaste for their antics.”
In Conversation #5 (Girls Gone Wild are a Dime a Dozen…Dare to be Virtuous), I highlight the Proverbs 31 passage that asks the question, “Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.” While at first glance the virtuous woman discussed in Proverbs 31 may appear to be an outdated fixture of the past, her character qualities have stood the test of time. This might be a good time to sit our daughters down and remind them that virtue is again, in vogue.
While Hollywood extols the new crop of “good girls,” let’s not forget that our calling as mothers is to aim higher than just raising a generation of “good girls.” Our task is to raise “godly girls.” While Hollywood marvels at this up-and-coming trend of “good girls” and the benefits of “virtuous living,” let’s remind our daughters of the timeless wisdom that can be found in God’s Word regarding virtue and godliness. Thank goodness, God doesn’t assign us each a “Q score” based on our moral (or immoral!) deeds. We’d all be toast. At the end of the day, we are to live our lives for an audience of One. I pray that Hollywood’s posse of girls-gone-wild will recognize their true worth and value in the eyes of God. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “It’s never too late to begin again.”
You mean the Bible was right all along?! What a concept.
It was a breath of fresh air to see a tasteful and surprisingly modest dance show at my kids’ high school this past weekend. It even included a number by the group of Christian girls (more than 20!) within the varsity dance group who danced to a Christian song after their theme Bible verse was read. I was amazed and delighted!
Thanks for continuing to point girls to godliness.
I’ll be sharing this with my daughter. Thanks, Vicki.
Vicki,
Thank you for your Virtue Alerts! It helps to keep me “in the know” with regards to my 13 yr. old daughter and my 11 yr old son.
I believe my daughter has a strong underlying morality – it’s just not something she really puts out there. And I’m glad to see that she has chosen friends that think and believe along the same lines as she does. Just this past Saturday night I took her and 3 other friends to the mall for a couple hours of shopping. I just enjoyed listening to their conversations to and from the mall, and how they all think boys are “immature jerks” (well, they are only 13!), and that they all abhor the use of cursing and general bad language. Although I think each would like to have a boy interested in them, they really don’t see the value in “dating” at this age and prefer to hang out in groups of both boys and girls. And as for music, I think most of them can differentiate between a song with lyrics they like versus the antics of the singer – I don’t think they strongly connect the two aspects of the artist, and also realize that the song is the product and the actions are the marketing and PR.
I have to say, too, that each of these girls have very involved mothers and fathers, and although they all may not attend church regularly, you can clearly see the influence of God somewhere in their lives.
Thanks again, Vicki!
Looking forward to your talk next Saturday…we’re traveling to Springfield, IL to see it…Lookin forward to our first Mother/Daughter trip together. Hopefully it will be fun!
I’m new to this but I liked the alert,this is all new to me I’m on the otherside ihave a twoyrs but a goddaughter 13 and is active with us but not in a good lifestyle but I like having this site and people have recommended some books of yours.so thanks again for this aand futer stuff.
Great post, Vicki. It’s time to sit our daughters down and remind them that virtue is what God expects, whether it’s in vogue or not.
I love this! Thank you so much for your words. I love how everything you talk about is completely relevant, and your advice is something that girls can easily do. I have many of your books and refer back to them often. I hope that one day my words speak to girls and women as much as yours do.