‘Walking in like Al Capone with a bat ain’t going to work.’
you Mitchell defenders are pushing the PC culture that has effectively ruined this nation...why shouldn’t this witness be aggressively queried, other than the prevailing zeitgeist that female egos are more fragile than bone china dishware...?
I think you have it exactly backwards.
It is “old-school” to treat women with deference and politeness. This also happens to be the correct way to treat them, by the way.
The PC culture that has “ruined this nation”, as you are correct to point out, is that women are interchangeable with men and belong in politics and the work-place and hearings like this “going toe-to-toe” with the men, because they really are just men.
That creates the schizoid behavior that you see, and which the feminist “womyn” like. They expect to get to have it both ways.