Gossip Girl: CW Network 
Based on the book by Cecily Von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl is the latest teen melodrama offered up by the CW Network. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor One Tree Hill, the GG folks compiled a cast of attractive actors and actresses sure to become staples in both tabloids and teen mag covers. Set in the crazy world that apparently exists in Manhattan prep schools, GG presents the uber-rich in all their cattiness and materialistic obsession. There's enough seducing and scheming in this show to make their daytime soap counterparts look like mere preschoolers.
While I've yet to meet a student that goes to a school quite like this, there are elements that can resonate with today's teen girls. Virtually everyone has fallen prey to the gossiper's tongue, and Gossip Girl ramps that up a notch with the addition of the cyber-gossip column that weaves the backdrop for this teen tale.
Included below are a good list of heartcheck questions to ask your girls who are consistent Gossip Girl viewers.
Heartcheck Questions:
- Do I find myself desiring more things as a result of watching GG?
Watching wealth portrayed in this way may send your materialism meter through the roof. In Philippians 4, the apostle Paul tells us, "I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances." Can you honestly say the same thing?
- Do I feel more or less compelled to gossip about other people?
Proverbs 16:28 says, "A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends." The Bible has much to say about the power of our words, so consider yours carefully.
- Has GG's portrayal of sex influenced the way I view physical intimacy?
1 Corinthians 6:18 says, "Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body." When we choose to engage in physical intimacy outside the context of marriage, we are not only sinning against God but also our own bodies. Physical intimacy always translates into emotional intimacy as well, leading many girls to a place of emotional emptiness when a relationship ends. That's why we have to take God's lead rather than Gossip Girl's when it comes to sex.
