(When I saw the thread title, I was thinking, Palin or Connor?)
Regarding women NPCs, the Devs really need to start giving NPCs some better looking faces for the SA/EC client. The default face (ie. the ones which all NPCs have) is awfully dreadful.
(Yeah, it's the same dreadful ugly face all player characters using Legacy client suffers from. For a while there, I was wondering why so many players would choose that horribly dreadful face, until Fink revealed the truth - they are Legacy clienters who don't even realize their chars have a dreadful awful looking face. You guys can thank the Devs for setting a horrible ugly face as the default choice. The face has a crooked evil looking smug smirk to it.)