With due deference to that classic,
Casablanca, and Captain Louis Renault's (Claude Raines) exclamation:
"I am shocked. SHOCKED! ...to learn that...!"
watch
Just as I was as well...
Shocked. SHOCKED! to learn... that
typhoo' Iris and I graduated from the
same law school
!
Aggressive?
How well I recall the women in the class of "76, USD Law, entering as classmates in August '73, and which, collectively, shocked me. The on-their-sleeve-hostility many of the [refreshingly] well-numbered entering females seemed [to me] to bear toward their opposite gender classmates was palpable. Generally speaking, for sure. IMO, then & still.
Now I was six years senior to most of these women's recently under-grad(uated) male peers, and maybe that's how, on discovering that, [despite a fortuitous youthful appearance belying my age (28) and (presumed?) maturity], I was able to enjoy very amiable friendships with a goodly number of these younger women classmates. [I was even able, for example, to talk one of the women to consider applying during her second year for a commission in the Navy's JAG Corps. She did; was accepted; I later served with her in the Philippines, and years later met on an official matter with her at CINCUSNAVEUR HQ in London, she then
wearing more gold braid than I did at my retirement from Bermuda the previous year! She was neither aggressive nor hostile to me, way-back then, or at that time. KUDOS to us both, perhaps
?
So, ico The Iris
?
Honestly, as a fellow alumnus, albeit decades later, I'd truly like to
sit down ...and to
chat with her.
The former, if possible; the latter, if plausible.
Most civilly and respectfully,
'Gentlewoman and Scholar', with 'Officer and Gentleman'.