SIR: Bolton Evening News readers will have noticed the chirpy Spice Girls are affecting youthful female behaviour.

I asked a young woman bank cashier if she believed in 'safe sex?' She said: "Yes I do. But we don't have a big enough safe at this branch."

A 'woman only' world would be more civilised, with fewer wars, much less crime and violence etc.

But when legitimately grasping for male roles, women must avoid copying men's worst characteristics.

A Toni Blair would be okay! But what about Jimima Davidson?

Max Nottingham

St Faith's Street, Lincoln

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