Every few years when a new James Bond movie comes out, the entertainment media produce stories about the Bond girls.

And what pointless stories they are. Can they please devote their resources to something less trivial and more dignified?

Each time it’s the same angle: What is the role of the Bond girls in the modern-day Bond movies?

We get it. The Bond movies go back 46 years and times change. Pick something else to throw at us.

The questions they raise go on: Are the Bond girls pretty enough? Are the Bond girls sexy enough? How do they rate in the lineup of Bond girls of the past? Should the Bond girls be portrayed as more independent or less independent?

It gets weirder. In the new Bond movie “Quantum of Solace,” Olga Kurylenko’s character Camille shares the poster with Daniel Craig’s Bond but she does not end up in bed with him. So that has prompted writers to write.

Read this paragraph from a Reuters story on the topic:

“Not everyone is impressed, however, with several critics calling for more sex, not less, and fan sites arguing that the majority of Bond women, Camille included, are of little consequence to the plot or popularity of the movies.”

OK, here is our question: Why is this news? So what? We like the movies, but we find stories about Bond girls to be demeaning to women. The stories rate somewhere lower than a beauty pageant but higher than a mud-wrestling contest.

Besides, what does “Quantum of Solace” mean, anyway? The title sounds like it means “comforted with physics.”