Marie Curie

She was so hot in her time that you still can't (or shouldn't) go near her (or her things) even after she died in 1934.

The government did not relent, people donated to essentially buy her a tank.

She sold all of her possessions to donate a tank to the Red Army. She requested the tank, a T-34 medium tank,[3] be named "Fighting Girlfriend" ("Боевая подруга") and that she be allowed to drive it. The State Defense Committee agreed to this.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a Soviet sniper who is often called "Lady Death." She had 309 confirmed kills during World War 2, making her the most successful female sniper in history.

Marie Curie killed herself slowly with radiation so she could do science.

Fuck Taylor Swift if she thinks she is bad ass for an album.

I can name several, and that's just women I know personally. Taylor Swift is fine and all but it's not like she's some elevated version of the gender. Fandoms get really weird.

Taylor is very low on this ladder, like really low

Ada Lovelace, a woman who not only invented computer programming in a time where computers were theoretical mechanical devices, but she also managed to live up to the reputation of both her mother, a female mathematian from the early industrial period, and her father, famed poet and slut Lord Byron. She was a true renaissance woman

Shakuntala Devi "The Human Computer"

She could compute large roots and factorials mentally.

On 18 June 1980 she multiplied two randomly chosen 13‑digit numbers in 28 seconds at Imperial College, London. That performance was listed in the 1982 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.

She also authored The World of Numbers and The World of Homosexuals in 1977.

The former was used as a teaching tool with her hope of making math easier for everyone, especially to make it more accessible to girls (while it is often seen as a elite male dominated field).

The latter is about her experience being married to a homosexual man. She saw same‑sex attraction as a natural variation of human sexuality and advocated for tolerance, which was well ahead of the times in the 70s.

Just an all around good person.

How about Virginia Hall aka "The Limping Lady":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Hall

She was a spy in occupied France during World War II despite having a prosthetic leg. She didn't just make it onto the Nazi's most wanted list, but was referred to as "the most dangerous of all Allied spies".

Wendy Carlos who double majored in Physics and Music in 1962 and went on develop synthesizers with Robert Moog.

Her album Switched-On Bach essentially invented electronic music in a way mainstream audiences could digest. Taylor Swift really doesn't have any on Wendy Carlos in terms of talent or creativity or even influence. Give Swift another 5 decades and we'll see where her career is.

We also have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Lee_%28mathematician%29?wprov=sfla1

A lady who dealt the deathblow to craniology, and worked as an academic during the late Victorian era. Let that sink in - she managed this pre-sufferage.

She has a Kay Lee Frye (Jewel Staite) look about her.

The tank pilot story provokes a shower thought - Karens could be really useful and productive if we could only channel their energy the right direction.

Easy, like all of them. Shes had the easiest life you could have. Worst thing that happened in her life is she got dumped.

Anyone with a Wikipedia page with a philanthropy section cannot qualify as a bad bitch imo.

what has Swift ever done to even be considered a "bad bitch"?

IIRC, they denied her request because they thought it would be a waste of a tank but then tons of people donated to buy one specifically for her to command.

I appreciate Taylor Swifts achievements, but come on guys... Catherine_the_Great

1. Seized Power with Surgical Precision: Orchestrated a coup against her unpopular husband Peter III by winning over the military and elites. He was dead within days and she ruled unchallenged for 34 years.

2. Mastered Identity Politics: German-born, she rebranded herself as Russian: converted to Orthodoxy and learned the language and then used it to rally national pride and loyalty.

3. Talked Enlightenment, Ruled Autocracy: She courted philosophers like Voltaire and Diderot, published liberal-sounding reforms (Nakaz), and branded herself as a "philosopher queen", while keeping tight control and strengthening the nobility.

4. Turned lovers into loyal lieutenants — military commanders, diplomats, advisors — then replaced them when they weren't useful anymore.

5. Expanded Without Overextending: Catherine outmaneuvered rivals in wars and diplomacy: took Crimea through influence, took parts of Poland through alliances, beat the Ottomans by maneuvering.

Taylor's mother

Milunka Savic

I mean, she was badass AND Sabaton made a song about her !

But could she pull off black lipstick?

Joan of Arc comes to mind.

You got to have some confidence to be a performer, but if you asked Taylor Swift I don’t believe she would say she is one of the baddest bitches in world history lol.

Is it just me or does Swift look like a barrister in that picture?