A passionate and impulsive woman.

[ricardo shillyshally]

I suppose what I think the guys need is strong minded women to challenge them, and their beliefs(in general and about women). They don't need to be in every episode, don't need to be their girlfriends,etc. Penny is strong willed, indepenent but friendly. Leslie was actually similar to Howard in some ways; looking to experiment and learn about sex and love. She then wanted to do the conventional relationship, although no doubt in her own way. Howard seems to have had writer intervention. People develop through experience. Leslie treated Howard like a sex object. If characters learnt from experience, Howard would have 'dialed it back', as Penny said. Bernadette irrelevant!