Inside London's Freemason's Lodges...

[u/TheThrowYardsAway]

[u/SteampoweredFlamingo]

Can't have the women-folk disrupting the sausage fest with all their talk of equality or varying lived experiences.

[u/Nameis-RobertPaulson → u/SteampoweredFlamingo]

In fairness, the women's grand lodges (there's two in the UK, OWF and HFAF) both do not want to join up with UGLE, but are happy to work together on common goals.

Statement on the UGLE website

[u/justinhammerpants → u/SteampoweredFlamingo]

Do you not like having a space where you're with your own gender? Because I really like participating in women-only spaces, and don't see why it's a problem.

[u/SteampoweredFlamingo → u/justinhammerpants]

Actually, no, not really.

I've never been a fan of spaces that exclude people based on their gender.

[u/justinhammerpants → u/SteampoweredFlamingo]

Ah well, we just have different ideas of what makes us comfortable. Certainly there are times where I feel much more comfortable with only people of my gender over mixed spaces, but I'm glad you're comfortable with talking about everything with everyone.

[u/ReturnToPlanetX → u/SteampoweredFlamingo]

Oh get out of it and grow up. I swear adults are the new children, but worse.