{"id":2791,"date":"2013-10-07T06:43:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2013-10-13T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T03:39:14","slug":"why-mock-goody-two-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2013\/why-mock-goody-two-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mock Goody Two-Shoes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goody two-shoes? What does that mean?!<\/p>\n

It must be something bad. Really, terribly bad. I’ve never heard anything positive about a goody two-shoes. I’ve never heard anyone aspire to being one. Obviously there’s no good in that kind of goody<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goody two-shoes are mocked, derided, and scorned. They are held in contempt and as a standard of what not to be.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

OK, after writing all that, I looked up the term and found these two helpful entries:<\/p>\n

Someone who tries to behave better than anyone else<\/p>\n

A prudish, self-righteous individual, a goody-goody. For example, Phyllis was a real goody two-shoes, tattling on her friends to the teacher. This expression alludes to the main character of a nursery tale, The History of Goody Two-Shoes (1765), who was so pleased when receiving a second shoe that she kept saying “Two shoes.” The goody in the story is short for goodwife but means “goody-goody” in the idiom.<\/p>\n

Source: dictionary.com<\/a><\/div>\n

That helps. I’ve even met people like that. And people I thought were like that, but I discovered later my own weakness propelled me to a huge leap onto a wrong, unjust conclusion<\/strong>. Andr\u00e9e over at World<\/i> magazine experienced something similar: <\/p>\n

Mary Jo was practically perfect. Of all the coeds she was by far the most wholesome, like the song out of West Side Story: “modest and pure, polite and refined, well-bred and mature.” Never an untoward word, never a scandalizing outfit, never a hint of gossip, jealousy, or hippie free love, nothing but kind, cheerful, and honoring of her parents. And one day I was fed up with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So she unloaded on Mary Jo.<\/p>\n

Here are some other things I noted in the article:<\/p>\n