To a baddie is to be a video vixen. To be a baddie to be insta-famous. To be a baddie is to look like you’ve stepped out of the Fashion Nova website. To be a baddie is to be the validator because you are valid. To be a baddie is to have a cute face and an ugly attitude, to be better than the last and prettier than the “average.” To be a baddie is to stoop down and accept society’s superficial definition of a Queen, a common mistake that lessens that title.

It’s easy to understand that being a baddie is all about having the body, the face, the hair, the clothes, and the followers; the hard part is understanding how all of that equates to being a Queen Material culture has given women the distorted view of what a baddie really is and, since the definition of a true baddie is distorted, the definition of being a Queen has deteriorated as well.
Baddies and Queens may often be associated with each other, but this is as close as they get. To compare a baddie to a Queen just doesn’t work.

If you wish to find society’s definition of a baddie then look no further than the Urban Dictionary, identifying her as “a girl who is thick and has ‘fleek’ makeup…Girls who are ‘bad’ are extremely attractive to guys.”

Looking at the attributes of a Queen – elegant, kind, composed, courageous, intelligent, humble, deliberate, loving, and honest – and you have your answer. Queens are class and baddies are just beauty and sass. One of the definitions the Urban Dictionary provides for Queen is: “ An individual who has mastered their inner self and in doing so influences the world around her, instead of being influenced by it.” Again, one look at the definition and you see that a baddie is no Queen.

The pedestal for Queens should be higher than baddies; so why is it that society tries to places Queens and baddies in the same rank when they’re clearly not.

The problem, like we’ve discovered so many times, is that society has its priorities mixed up. The people who hold the media world in the palm of their hands have blurred definitions blurring priorities and causing deterioration of the status of women in the process. Instead of women building each other up the way we should, we find women knocking each other down, becoming societies entertainment.
Far too often women step off of their throne, take off their crown, snatch their hair in a sloppy bun, and stoop to society’s low standards just to be glorified in the light that they shouldn’t want to be glorified in. It is time to stop this.

It is time for women to put aside the bad girl who men drool after, put aside the pics that bring thirsty comments, and put aside the petty behavior in the name of attention and carry yourself like the Queen you are meant to be.