On using sex to get ahead ...

One of the wonderful things about the women's movement has been that by and large, in this country at least (I'm only American; I can't speak for any other nationality), it's considered just as normal for a young woman to not be a virgin, as it is for a young man. I'm not suggesting that's any great feat to be lauded for either gender; what I'm saying is that the sexual double standard for women isn't rigid like it used to be. In most quarters, I would term sex as a "live and let live" situation for men and women. I would say very few men expect their brides to be pure for the marriage bed, as opposed to what their grandfathers and great-grandfathers might have expected.

Of course, I'm more impressed by the fact women have a chance at all the same careers as men (well, maybe not Calvin Klein male underwear model) - a side effect not only of the women's movement, but long before that, mostly originating in WWII and the need for domestic labor as most of the working-age men went off to war. I experience the benefit of that all the time, by being a journalist.

( Someone is going to call me an old prude, but at my age and level of life experience, I've decided I don't really mind what people think of my opinions. )

Doctor, call MY house ...

Oh, Christopher Eccleston, you can land your TARDIS in my yard any morning you like.

If I were a lesbian, you could even bring Billie Piper. Rose is like Elizabeth, but without the inability to decide on a personality.