So my gf and I have finally gone public with our relationship

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So my gf and I have finally gone public with our relationship after four months of just enjoying our own private bubble. Her work colleagues are weirdly really excited about it. She hasn't dated in the entirety of the four years she's been at the company and it's clearly a novel thrill for them.

She's come home with stories every day for the last week about some new way her colleagues made a jab about her having a boyfriend or whatever. Like yesterday she's on the phone before she hops on a flight, and her team is giving her shit about, "Checking in with your man??!!"

Generally, I'd say it's people poking innocuous fun, but it sorta concerns me in this case; not because I think they're harassing her or anything, but because I worry about this behavior being a slippery slope for people taking her less than seriously in the work place. She's very serious about her career and she's 27 on a team comprised mostly of married guys in their 40s. I worry that this becomes a way in which they treat her like a kid or something.

It reminds me of the way people's perception of my old boss (female) changed when they found out her new boyfriend after her divorce was considerably younger. All these little comments to her about it that were, frankly, people getting a bit too familiar with their boss when they'd never had that kind of rapport with her before.

Am I seeing things that aren't there? Is it worth talking with her and just letting her know that there is a line that shouldn't be crossed? She thinks it's totally innocent, and I'm not so sure.