The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has long viewed with hostility and has an estimated global membership of up to six million.
Your wife’s book club probably isn’t made up of a large proportion of your country’s cultural, financial, and academic elites which are openly involved in politics.
This isn’t some dudes meeting up in a bowling alley or a local bar, but rather one of the places where politics get made for real.
It doesn’t have to be a bad thing; Belgium’s most prestigious university is a freemason project. But excluding women from such “soft power” exercises raises some alarm bells for me.
I don’t think it’s misogynistic to have a boy’s only club.
I’m not invited to my wife’s book club (girls only), does that make them men haters?
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Your wife’s book club probably isn’t made up of a large proportion of your country’s cultural, financial, and academic elites which are openly involved in politics.
This isn’t some dudes meeting up in a bowling alley or a local bar, but rather one of the places where politics get made for real.
It doesn’t have to be a bad thing; Belgium’s most prestigious university is a freemason project. But excluding women from such “soft power” exercises raises some alarm bells for me.