TRTL

I discovered a copy of Fear of Flying among my friend's older sister's books. I was 15, I thought the book was fantastic, imagine women choosing men in the same way men would often choose women; zipless fcuks! Quite the epiphany.

Shadow Minster: "Blue rinsed dowager"
Shadow Minster: "The term BRD is not of my invention, and has been used for decades with similar meaning."

http://www.google.com/search?q=Blue+rinsed+dowager brings up your post here as its second hit, Shadow. You are famous! But methinks it ain't as common as you say, especially as the first hit doesn't contain the word dowager.

Blue Rinse Brigade on the other hand is a very common term. And as you say I think it accurately sums up what is happening here. I recall a similar thing happened when books reached a certain price at the start of the 20th century. There was wide spread notion it would corrupt the women. They were right of course. The most common position adopted by the women in my house is "nose in a book".

There was as much proof around that books corrupted women back then is there is that violent video games encourage violent behaviour now. But it seemed like it should be true, so that was OK then.