Last night on America’s Next Top Model, Tyra Banks did her usual suspenseful schpiel: “I have before me 12 young girls who have a chance at becoming America’s Next Top Model blah blah blah.” Except I’m not sure it was her usual schpiel, because “young girls” just rang out at me, and I’ve seen the show before and it never did on any other occasion. Does she always say that? I mean it’s one thing to not call them women – since half of them aren’t over the age of 18, I don’t think – but “young” girls, too? To me “young girls” means 8 or 9 year olds, not 17 or 18 year olds. Young women would be far more appropriate, no? I mean if they really need to use “girl” instead, then how about just “girls” – 12 hopeful girls, 12 beautiful girls, 12 painfully-overdramatic girls, even.