Girls Gone Wild!

July 24, 2003 7:24 AM

Like many of us, I enjoy the bad women, from your garden variety betrayed women to the problem girls, the untamed youth running wild. An all too brief gallery of documentary films about this fascinating subculture is up over at retrocrush.
posted by jonson (10 comments total)

[this is good]
posted by plep at 7:36 AM on July 24, 2003

Mmmmh!
posted by magullo at 7:43 AM on July 24, 2003

"built like a platinum powerhouse."
posted by quonsar at 7:55 AM on July 24, 2003

First of all great posters. But the whole "bad girl" attraction thing is an odd dynamic, especially for wanna-be bad boys. We're drawn to them, but they also intimidate the hell out of us.
posted by jonmc at 8:19 AM on July 24, 2003

I have had a refrigerator magnet with the "Problem Girls" linked photo since about 1988, but the reason I write is that this week my wife suddenly asked me to teach her to play poker. Hmmm... good girl gone bad?
posted by planetkyoto at 8:20 AM on July 24, 2003

I don't give a damn
'Bout my reputation
I've never been afraid of any deviation
An' I don't really care
If ya think I'm strange
I ain't gonna change
An' I'm never gonna care
'Bout my bad reputation

Oh no, not me
Oh no, not me

- Joan Jett
posted by bwg at 8:20 AM on July 24, 2003

Whatever became of the bullet bra? Oh, there it is, but at a specialty shop. Come on: If flippin' Capri pants can come back on a massive scale, why not bullet bras and sweater girls?

Strictly, for reasons of nostalgia of course...

Also, them gauzy neckerchief things tied to the side and the names Veronica, Shirley, and Mitzi please.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 8:32 AM on July 24, 2003

Always good to see good girls gone bad. The lesbian pulp fiction collection is good for a foray (my personal favorite is "The Evil Friendship").

You could send a bad girls pulp fiction postcard or a lesbian pulp ficiton postcard to your favorite bad girl, just as a treat of course.
posted by answergrape at 8:35 AM on July 24, 2003

The problem girls is quite delicious.
posted by widdershins at 10:07 AM on July 24, 2003

Hm. I have that "old postcard book". It's not all that old. Sorry to be snarky, I like retrocrush but just scanning the cards out of a book is not a terribly impressive piece of work.
posted by George_Spiggott at 10:38 AM on July 24, 2003