Who says we can't have a female Bond? Well, Twitter says it's just a fantasy of those pesky feminists or that women should try their own spy movie first to test the waters. Terri Psiakis tackles these complaints.

Austin Powers gave us fembots, could we now be headed for fem-Bonds? Given all the fuss caused by last week's harmless tweet from Gillian Anderson, it would appear so.

In case you missed it, Anderson's tweet featured a mocked up Bond movie poster featuring her and the line: "It's Bond. Jane Bond."

I'm all for a female Bond, although I'm wondering whether "fem-Bond" sounds less like a female James Bond and more like a special kind of superglue that only adheres to women.

And let's be clear: I'm not for just any female playing Bond, it has to be an utterly believable casting. It's not like we're talking about putting Betty White in the role.

Anderson could definitely do the job. She has great acting chops and she proved during her time on The X-Files that she sure as hell knows how to look sexy in a suit.

Emily Blunt's name has also been worthily bandied about, as has Rosamund Pike's, and I quite like the idea of Angelina Jolie as a casting option. Quantico star Priyanka Chopra has thrown her own hat in the ring, slamming suggestions that she play a Bond girl with the retort "F--k that - I wanna be Bond."

I wonder whether it's worth mentioning to any of these women the impact playing Bond could have on their sex lives? Australian-born Bond, George Lazenby, is now 76 and still rueful over how playing Bond reduced the notches on his belt in the 1970s:

It was hippy time and getting laid in a suit was difficult ... I was restricted to about five women for nine months. I'm not bragging but once in a while, before I was Bond, I passed that number in a day ... it was a wonderful crazy time.

True story.

Predictably, however, all this talk of Jane Bond has raised such a ruckus that some people's heads have apparently exploded:

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Yes, Dylan: damn that pesky feminism. Always out to spoil people's fun. Feminism "ruined" Ghostbusters too, didn't it? (Psst, Dylan: Have you heard about what it did to The Footy Show?)

And there are those who think women should test the waters with their own films first:

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Oh, Alex, you big silly! Loads of female spies have already been written and some of them were totally mainstream and popular!

Remember Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow in Alias, Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Homeland, Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings in The Americans, Diane Kruger as Bridget von Hammersmark in Inglorious Basterds? Remember all those Nikitas? Do you remember Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 in Get Smart? Geez, buddy: DO YOU REMEMBER HARRIET THE SPY?

Anyway, a female Bond doesn't have to be about feminism or "the sisterhood". There are in fact women who don't support the idea of a female Bond:

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I'm really not sure what people find so threatening about a female Bond.

What - are they worried she won't be able to reverse-park the Aston Martin? Are they concerned there won't be any more sexy sex, or Bond girls? Because female protagonists can pick up too, you know, and there could still be Bond girls. Or Bond boys.

Seriously: Do we really care that much whether it's Ivana Havitoff or Harry Bollocks? I mean, the producer of the Bond movies since 1995 goes by the name of Barbara Broccoli - what say we just start fanning everything out from there?

Forget all the "isms" - a female Bond would well-serve the purpose of freshening up the franchise. Casting Dame Judi Dench as the previously always-male M was a brilliant call in the last bunch of Bond films, with Dench fitting the role perfectly.

So, could a head of lettuce be Bond? No. Could a woman be Bond? Why not?

Terri Psiakis has worked as a stand-up comic, writer and broadcaster since 2000.