WHEN DID NASTY REPLACE NICE AND BECOME CHIC?

UPDATE

I wrote this and shared my concern on Facebook.  The responses I got were mostly about how this is a reaction to men’s feeling about woman and Donald Trump’s remarks that were exposed during the debates.

WHEN DID NASTY BECOME CHIC?

When Did NASTY become chic?  Houston, we have a problem!  This seemed to be a common thread in the signs I saw and the rhetoric I heard at the Woman’s March this past weekend; “Nasty girl” signs being carried by kids and mothers being proud of that.  This breaks my heart.  We have crossed the line of decency when Nasty becomes our role model and goal.  We have become an adulterous and sinful generation and that is topped off by offending children and making them thing this is the new norm.

Nasty: Disgusting to see, smell, or touch; filthy; malicious; spiteful;

            unpleasant; disagreeable.

Is this really what we want our little girl children to grow up to be?  Is this really what women really want to be?  If we believe our world is a mess now, wait until these ‘nasty girls’ become of age.  Shame on us!  The illusion of happiness and celebration of sisterhood and solidarity is just that; an illusion.

Todays journal entry is a response to my pondering about the responses.

25 January 2017

Who do I look to to define my behavior?  I like to think I am the one who does that but I do have role models I look to for some ideas.  I have been fortunate to have good role models to look to.  I have been mentored by some very strong women who were able to be strong without losing their gentle, kind, and modest selves.  Nice had not become a bad trait like it appears it has become today.  As a follower of Jesus I look to Him to pattern my heart, mind, and soul after. I know that while in the flesh He was male but in reality He was in the form of one flesh, male and female, which is what we will be in our Spiritual being.  Thankfully God kept record in His Story in the Bible of some very strong women who lived in times when women were considered nothing.  But Jesus showed the world something very different.

I am eternally grateful for all of the many role models I have had and I am pleased that I am who I am because of their influence.  My heart goes out to those who have only the allure of what the world says is appealing and what to be desired.  Those role models are an illusion and are not real.  It is clear to me that the “prince of this world” is still as crafty and deceitful as he was at the beginning of time.  It is as if he knows his time is short and he is pulling out all stops.  It is clear to me who our true enemy is in these difficult times. 

It is my prayer that we would not give into “the schemes of the devil.  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rules, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:11,12).

Let’s make Nice chic again, instead of nasty.

Nice: Pleasing, appealing, considerate, well mannered, respectable, virtuous,

         fastidious, exacting.

There is nothing weak in being nice.  In the end it beats out being nasty, hands down.  Love overpowers hate just as light overpowers darkness.

PS…My reading this morning was in Mark 16.  It was the women who Jesus appeared to after His resurrection.  He told Mary to go and tell the other disciples.  They did not believe the women.  “Afterward He appeared to the eleven disciples and UPBRAIDED them with their unbelief and hardness of heart because they believed not them which had seen him after He was risen.”  (UPBRAIDED means to scold or chide vehemently.)  I smiled.

In the end we will all be held accountable and responsible for our words and behavior.  I want to make good choices.