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...or, there are other men and women like me who have come to view "girl" as a dismissive term and struggle to find a respectful, culturally appropriate and universally-approved descriptor for female teens. Those of us in the media actually have it pretty easy as far as our professional lives are concerned. We just consult a stylebook--say, for example, The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual. My copy is old (1998) but there's the solution to this particular problem right there on page 89.
