Maybe it’s just me, but I think women in their forties who wear mini-skirts look ridiculous. Jennifer Aniston is the one who usually comes to mind, but at last night’s Emmy awards Laura Linney was up there flashing her mid-thighs for all the world to see. Ewwww. Admittedly, I came of age during the hippie era, which introduced a huge set of its own baggage to ideas of female imagery. But I’m struck by how thoroughly the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” backlash to the women’s liberation movement of yesteryear has permeated our perennially adolescent culture. This has nothing to do with prudishness, and everything to do with finding maturity sexy. Style is cool. People over forty trying to look like they’re twenty-somethings isn’t.