Here's a question my female friends and I sometimes ask ourselves: Why do our younger colleagues freely call themselves girls? Unreconstructed '60s feminists we may be, but we insisted on being called women when we were their age -- and were ready to pounce on any guy who didn't go along with us so we could reveal him to be the male chauvinist that he was. But today, it's "me and the girls," or "I know this girl who," among women as young as 18 and as old as 35. I wonder if that reflects a greater comfort with youth...