Sometimes seventeen ain't so sweet

There's an article in Newsweek about how Seventeen Magazine's new editor Ann Shoket is trying to turn "an era when being bad is the teen-girl rage" by paying less attention to "bad girls" Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, etc etc etc, and more attention to "good girls" a la Ashlee Simpson, the magazine's back-to-school cover girl. Okay, I respect that, I guess, even though I don't think most teenage girls want to emulate tabloid party girls, because they're all such hot messes.
My problem is that Seventeen seems to have difficulty differentiating between what is "bad girl" behavior-- say, doing 100 on the wrong side of the highway, blowing coke, throwing phones at people's heads-- and behavior that just illustrates heightened sexual confidence, because God Forbid a woman have that to her name. A "...pantyless drive down Sunset Boulevard"? If going commando taints a girl's goodness, then I am the female Charles Manson. Hey, by age seventeen, girls are well into the sexuality experimentation phase, so why is Seventeen holding a "good girl" standard code of conduct that leaves little room for anything beyond "how to break the ice with that cute guy in your english class"? Isn't that just going to make the girls who are discovering their sexuality feel guilty and isolated?

not like it even applies to me, anyway; yesterday was my 18th birthday!