Bad girl’s guide to getting what you want

Because it was cheap and sort of cute I bought Cameron Tuttles “Bad girl’s guide to getting what you want”. (I buy way too many books like that...) As I was flipping through I saw these lists of different bad girls and a Swedish name caught my eye and I thought, they she make the list? And then I looked closer and there were loads of Swedish names on it. Of course when it was printed in Swedish they added Swedes on it so that people could relate but… I don’t like things getting changed. Sure, it’s not a serious book but still. They have added some names they liked better and I guessed thought we here in Sweden would know who they were and removed some… Like poor Debbie Harry, why?!

Annoyed with all of these changes, irritated, what else have they changed? I want the original version. Guess it serves me right for buying silly books… UPDATE: Oh my, comparing the original with this one… “mug shot” has been translated to “passport picture”, guessing this Swedish version is for the kids…

Here are the lists

Bad girls making music
Billie Holiday
Janis Joplin
Josephine Baker
Tina Turner
Bessie Smith (Not on the Swedish list)
Lil’ Kim
Aretha Franklin
Bonnie Raitt (Not on the Swedish list)
Shania Twain
Eartha Kitt
Courtney Love
Joan Jett
Chaka Khan (Not on the Swedish list)
Deborah Harry (Not on the Swedish list!!!!!!)
Sheryl Crow
Melissa Etheridge (Not on the Swedish list)
Annie Lennox
The bad girl formerly known as Prince
Liz Phair (Not on the Swedish list)
Grace Slick (Not on the Swedish list)
Chrissy Hynde
Stevie Nicks
Queen Latifah

ADDED IN THE SWEDISH VERSION
Gwen Stefani
Robyn
Monica Zetterlund (which is okay with me, love that woman)
Nina Persson (The Cardigans)
Beyonce
Jennifer Lopez
Mary J Blige

Bad girls making movies
Marilyn Monroe
Miss Piggy
Raquel Welch
Pam Grier
Carrie Fisher
Barbra Stanwyck
Tallulah Bankhead
Drew Barrymore
Callie Khouri (Not on the Swedish list)
Judy Davis (Not on the Swedish list)
Marlene Dietrich
Mae West
Sharon Stone
Rita Hayworth
Jane Champion
Christina Ricci
Greta Garbo
Katherine Hepburn
Penny Marshall (Not on the Swedish list)

ADDED ON THE SWEDISH LIST
Tova Novotny (What?! Please… If they are going to add a Swede, what about Ingrid Bergman?)
Juliette Lewis
Sarah Jessica Parker

Bad girls scoring points
Serena and Venus Williams
Mia Hamm (Not on the Swedish list)
Florence Griffith Joyner (Not on the Swedish list, most defiantly because of the steroid controversy)
Martina Navratilova
Lisa Leslie (Not on the Swedish list)
Brandi Chastain (Not on the Swedish list)
Michelle Akers (Not on the Swedish list)
Laila Ali (Not on the Swedish list)

ADDEN ON THE SWEDISH LIST
Kajsa Bergqvist
Therese Alshammar
Anja Pärson
Annika Sörenstam (Defiantly earned her place on the list)
Hanna Ljungberg
Victoria Svensson

Bad girls making history
Eve
Joan of Arc
Harriet Tubman (Not on the Swedish list)
Amelia Earhart
Eva Perón
Anne Boleyn (Not on the Swedish list)
Rosa Parks
Annie Oakley (Not on the Swedish list)
Queen Elizabeth I
Angela Davis
Wilma Rudolph (Not on the Swedish list)
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Madeleine Albright
Marie Curie
Jane Goodall
Margaret Sanger
Rosie the Riveter
Martha Graham (Not on the Swedish list)

ADDED ON THE SWEDISH LIST
Fredrika Bremer
Mother Teresa
Bridget of Sweden
Lady Diana
Anna Lindh

Bad girls making literature
Jane Austen
Anaïs Nin
Toni Morrison
George Sand
Dorothy Parker
Edit Wharton
Audre Lorde (Not on the Swedish list)
Colette (Not on the Swedish list)
Joan Didion (Not on the Swedish list)
Susan Sontag
The Brontë sisters
Maya Angelou (Not on the Swedish list)
Grace Paley (Not on the Swedish list)

ADDEN ON THE SWEDISH LIST
Astrid Lindgren (Yes! Hello, she’s the creator of Pippi Longstocking for F sake!)
Kerstin Thorwall
Linda Skugge
Liza Marklund (urk!)

Then they have removed the art category completely in the Swedish version and have “girls with power” instead, I’m not surprised.
Cristina Stenbeck
Anna Bråkenhielm
Stina Dabrowski (why not)
Princess Victoria

Bad girls making us laugh
Lucille Ball
Glida Radner (Not on the Swedish list)
Sandra Bernhard (Not on the Swedish list)
Lily Tomlin (Not on the Swedish list!)
Rosanne Barr
Holly Golightly (Not on the Swedish list)
Rosie O’Donnell
Phyllis Diller (Not on the Swedish list)
Ellen Degeneres
Oprah Winfrey (I wouldn’t say she makes me laugh, I would have put her on the “So bad they need only one name”)
Lisa Kudrow
Teri Garr (Not on the Swedish list)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Not on the Swedish list!!)
Bridget Jones

ADDED ON THE SWEDISH LIST
Annika Lantz
Suzanne Reuter
Babben Larsson
Tiffany Persson (Love her!)
Anna-Lena Brundin
Ulla Skog

Bad girls that make men weep
Scarlett O’Hara
Catwoman (!!)
Elizabeth Taylor
Heather Locklear
Gloria Steinem

Bad girls so bad they need only one name
Eve (Not on the Swedish list)
Madonna
Thelma & Louise
Xena (Not on the Swedish list)
Cleopatra
Eloise (Not on the Swedish list)
Charo (Not on the Swedish list)
Colette (Not on the Swedish list)
Lucy “peanuts” (Not on the Swedish list)
Ling

ADDED ON THE SWEDISH ONE
Pink (ew)
Pippi (Yeah!)
Grynet
Nikita (Hell yeah)
Patsy and Edina (Yes! I mean, cheers!)