This one’s probably a question with no answer because the boys’ club are vanishingly unlikely to cast a woman to play Bond.

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    22 days ago

    Her name could be Jaymes Bond. And there is no reason a girl cannot be called James. Nikita is female in most of the world, except Russia. Carrol is a man’s name, and Carol is a woman’s name. Tony can be a man or a woman. Names only have genders because we assign them that trait. If all the guys you ever knew in your life were called “Sophia”, it would be weird for a girl to take that name. A name is just a name, no matter how weird, unique or cool it is, it’s just a name.

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      22 days ago

      Elton John, then still not fully out of the closet, made good use of that, writing a love song titled Nikita, though having the love interest in the video be a blonde woman in a fur hat (presumably to appease the record company).

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      21 days ago

      But James Bond is supposed to be a bland forgettable name since Jaymes is an uncommon name for a woman it would be much more rememberable

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      A name is a name till it becomes female then it never goes back. It’s a weird phenomenon. Names going from male to female seems fine but not the other way. And yes their are some exceptions.

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        20 days ago

        Damned interesting! Where’s the Homer Simpson quote about old guys having all the cool names like Carol and Meredith and Lesley?