Yes, women need places of their own to hang out together with no men allowed. Men don’t want to talk about on quite a few of the issues women want to discuss and women don’t want to talk about certain issues or topics with men around. So why can’t they have their own ‘Women only’ clubs? Call it ‘The Women’s Lounge’ or ‘The Women’s Retreat’. Decorate it appropriately and tastefully to ensure comfort and relaxed atmosphere for women.

There are places where I wouldn’t expect to see a woman. A men’s room, men’s locker room, and a men only club. Men need to get away from their spouses and significant others just as much as women so what is the big deal about having a Men’s Grill? As long as the opposite sex has a similar retreat there shouldn’t be an issue. Just as women won’t discuss important (to them) issues around men, men won’t discuss important (to them) issues around women. So having a uni-sex (one sex) retreat is important to both sexes.

That being said, men need places like this too. There has been too much of a tendency over the past few years to change men to be more “acceptable” to mixed company. I’m not talking about the base crotch-scratching and peeing on trees. That’s just childish. But I am referring to men having a place to go where they can hang out and just be men without having to worry about women watching them and sizing them up too. This does happen. Don’t deny it! Men act differently when women are around and need a place to relax. A PRIVATE facility is perfectly acceptable for this. If people don’t like it, as others have said, don’t join! Create a better, co-ed facility to compete with the single-sex one and let the best club win. Women don’t need to encroach into men’s spaces and men don’t need to invade women’s spaces. Everyone just needs to respect each other. That sounds so simple, doesn’t it?

Yes, it was EXTREMELY childish the way the male members of the club acted as result of this situation, but is was equally childish that some people need to get the hand of government to interfere just because they don’t like the way private individuals enact policies on their property. Instead of taking the more sensible route and simply leaving the club to join a new one with a more gender-equal policy, they decided to get attention-seeking bureaucrats involved, and the precedent it sets can’t be good for anyone, male or female.

But I guess all’s well that ends well, seeing how the club is renovating to accommodate better equality standards for women. They should have done this ages ago, but it’s a shame that the threat of legal action — as opposed to free choice and the power of the purse — had to be the catalyst for change.

Just so I’m clear, being fair and equal with both sexes is manly, and very much so I might add, but trying to shove equality down people’s throats for insignificant reasons like this, isn’t. A real man shows how to be a man; he doesn’t force others to be a man for him.