Sorry; bit late off the rails commenting on this. In the "fuddy duddy" days of "old-fashioned culture", we didn't have people sticking knives in each other, drunken "yoofs" decorating our streets with their bodily products and concerned householders being kicked to death for making reasonable requests. Perhaps, just occasionally, we need seemingly old fashioned silly rules and constraints to put the rest of civilisation in perspective.

It's interesting that "the members have told us they wanted a change and there was a unanimous vote at the AGM". One wonders how much of that was pressure from Equality and Diversity laws, marital harmony and commercial considerations (ie more money) from "appealing to a younger and more diverse clientele".

Women are wonderful creatures to be treasured; but it is nice to have a refuge from them now and again.