Girls. Bond Girls, that is. Part II

A follow-up to this post; I have always wondered how the Bond Girls came across to impressionable young girls.  All I felt was that it would have been different.  Different from from the experiences of impressionable young boys like me.

As a graduate student, and as a lifelong student that I am as a faculty, I have become all too familiar with the feminist critiques of the representation of Bond Girls.  The blatant sexism, and the patronizing attitudes, and, of course, sensationalizing the female sexuality.   Which are not far off the mark, of course.

The recent Bond movies, however, have radically changed Bond and the women in the movies.  Bond shows emotions, and has a confident vulnerability.  Women?  A women "M" is a big change all by itself.  And the Bond Girls can do some serious ass kicking.

But, how did those original Bond Girls come across to the preteen and teenage girls in the audience?

Here is one engaging perspective (ht):