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It's not that we're necessarily desperate to get into your club. It's more that we learned the hard way to be suspicious of men who want to keep us out.

— Gaby Hinsliff

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The Garrick Club's continued rejection of women as members was an issue The Guardian had covered in recent days.

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Female friendships are built on knowing about the minutiae, and just like news, they require your presence.

But the reason I'm not naming Sex Kitten Man either is that making this about any one particular idiot risks letting all the other idiots off the hook.
For the point is it could have been any idiot.

When men wonder why women won't just let them have their cosy little clubs in peace, one answer is that we fear the mentality those cosy little clubs can sometimes produce.

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