Bad Girl Hype: Negative or Positive?

The trend of being a “bad girl” is spreading throughout today’s generation. Is this phrase coming from music, history, or street language? Many people view this term in a negative light and/or positive light. Throughout history the term has turned from sleazy to sexy. In the past people refereed to women as “girls” to degrade them. According to dictionary.com the word bad is defined as not good in any manner or having wicked character and the world “girl” is defined as a female dog. Therefore when you call the next female a bad “girl” you are calling her a wicked female dog. Remind yourself that as women we should value ourselves.
On the other note I understand why we as women allow this foolery to continue. Our generation focuses on entertainment and what is being perceived. As I looked into the definition of bad “girl” I only received a compelling feedback. According to Urban Dictionary a bad “girl” is a self-respected, strong female who has everything together. Throughout entertainment many artist have decided to place this phrase within their songs. A matter of fact the first time I heard this phrase it was actually from a woman. The term was by rapper Trina when she called her self the “Da Baddest (you know what) in the album entitled Da Baddest “Chick”. She made the term sound so appealing that a large selection of women that they actually wanted to claim themselves as this expression. In later forms of music artists were taking Trina’s expression of a bad”girl” and running with it. Webbie , a rapper from Baton Rouge, entitled his song Bad “Chick” and featured Trina. His lyrics made women feel powerful behind that they were. Bad “chicks” became independent, classy, and street savvy within the lyrics of these songs. The term bad “girl” has been going strong since then. Artist has switch the terminology of this phrase from degrading to sexy and confident.
However I disagree with the uplift of this phrase. The last time I checked in the girls (future women) were being raised to look up to queen and princesses on Disney. However today we seemed to have forgot that we are queens. We as women would rather call each other this vulgar phrase instead of lifting each other up with other powerful respectful terminology. We allow people of entertainment corrupt the mines of our generation. We accept the term to be vocalized to us without any consequence. The real question is why would you call yourself something that everyone could not call you. Think about it if a random man walked up to you and called you a “girl” how would you feel? Yet you call other woman and yourself this phrase all the time. Nonetheless you as women can make your decision to stay with trend or change the future of this phrase. We are all queens at the end of the day.