so far no one has managed to beat the record of Mr. Werner I., who, in 1975, pulled from Memmingen brook trout weighing nearly five kilos. In the Ledger of honorable anglers, he was listed as “king of kings”, but “Queens” is still not there. The Charter club black and white: for the annual contest are admitted only men, young men and boys.
the Excited burghers, which the Creek knee-deep, chase the fish with nets, and to stare at this hilarious spectacle attracts up to 30 thousand people. The fishing itself only lasts for 15 minute walk and the town celebration with the ringing of bells and glasses – continues all day. “I don’t understand why I’m not allowed to do what is available to any six-year-old boy,” says Christiane.
according to the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, she tried twice to amend the Statute, but in vain. Rumor has it that in a secret conspiracy against ladies – the Lord mayor, also a lover of fishing in the company of men. “The beauty of this tradition that it is preserved for centuries”, – said the mayor gently, pretending that the city authorities stand aside from the conflict.
the First private clubs of the Old world, which took only men, began to appear in Britain in the late seventeenth century, but their heyday was in the nineteenth century. Now these relict Islands of the simple masculine privilege trying to survive in the feminist storms.
While the defense holds one of the oldest of the London clubs for gentlemen “Whites”, founded in 1693. The only woman allowed to cross the threshold and remains Her Majesty Elizabeth II.
for travelers Club, which opened in 1819 in the city as a place where they could share their impressions of the lucky ones who had the privilege to travel to 500 miles from the capital. Today it includes diplomatic Bohemians of London, including foreigners. According to The Guardian, some diplomats middle managers are embarrassed that they can not take the admission of their wives, who are above them in rank or position. In 2012, for the first time sounded timid idea to make an exception at least for women ambassadors accredited in London, however, at the annual meeting decisively rejected. Many admitted that they were not ready to accept ladies into its ranks, because then it would have to pass them in line, to refrain from crude jokes and generally comply with the whole of this gentleman’s ceremony, from which the head hurts.
Similar arguments at a famous club, “Garrick”, which from time to time voted against female membership. Named in honor of the actor in the Enlightenment era of David Garrick, the club considers itself the last sanctuary of true aristocracy in this mortal world, writes The Guardian. In 1831, the “Garrigue” opened the door for the theatrical and literary elite of his time. His regulars byli Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, H. G. wells, Alan Milne. By the way, “Papa Winnie-the-Pooh” secured “Garrigue” a comfortable existence, bequeathed in favor of our favorite club for a quarter of the income from copyrights for children’s books. In 2000 this share was bought by the Empire of Walt Disney for forty million pounds, so now the club certainly doesn’t need sponsorship contributions, which he could promise a generous and influential patron.
once in the book of candidates miraculously crept into a woman’s name, there was a gentleman in front of everyone with rage, rushed to cut the page with scissors – on this incident at the margins still make fun. Actually all of these knights of the order of the British Empire, privy councillor of the Queen, members of Parliament, owners of antique shops, the doctors of elite clinics, the wine kings of afraid of the temptations – say, in the presence of women inevitably will “dissolve tails”, and then farewell, the male idyll. “When I take the wife to spend a night with the guys in the “Garrick,” she’s letting me go. But to have fun with guys and girls I would hardly be able”, – frankly said one of the members of the club.
the Last bastions of male solidarity worldwide remain private Golf clubs. In 2019 fell Scottish Muirfield. For the first time in its 275-year history, he opened the doors for female athletes, under threat that he was forbidden to take the championship as the British Open.
But on the other side of the Atlantic, many golfers continue to defend their glade. According to the edition of Sports Illustrated, the Burning Tree club (Maryland) not provided in women’s locker rooms. According to rumors, not take women to new York Garden City Golf Club, however the club is so closed off that he doesn’t even have your own site.
But sometimes Vice versa. Once the Ombudsman of the canadian province of British Columbia had to consider an unusual complaint. Citizen terribly indignant that he was not allowed in women’s gyms – the very fact of their existence, the man considered the universal injustice. And city Commission of new York on human rights launched an investigation against a private women’s club that lease space for a businesswoman. Lawyers have noticed there is discrimination of a strong half of mankind.
As you know, the brother of the chief detective of all time Sherlock Holmes Mycroft was in a secret club “Diogenes”. The participants swore to uphold a vow of silence. That is why the threshold is not allowed women, who, in the opinion of Victorian men who can’t keep his mouth shut. Of course, the invention of sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an ironic parody of the clubs of the time, but only partly. It is the Albion became home to a classic gentleman’s entertainment, which is rooted in the XVIII century. Then in English high society appeLas fashion “sober Breakfast”, because worthless aristocrats to start the day with whiskey. So they began to gather in the “political cafés” where you can look through the Newspapers and discuss the news in good company.
“of Course, “struggle with alcoholism” has affected not only the aristocrats. Laborers also started the working day with the port. Just drinking water at that time was so dirty that even pregnant women, lactating mother and two children constantly drinking some kind of alcohol, such as beer or ale. That is, the whole nation was in constant tears, – told “RG” the candidate of historical Sciences, specialist in the history of the English Enlightenment, the author of the monograph “the Political culture of Education in the UK” Zaruhi Migranyan. And only with the beginning of powerful colonization, all these of the East and West Indies companies in England came the fashion for tea and coffee. But drank tea at home, but coffee in special coffee shops. Started with coffee, and then, of course, passed on to the hard stuff – by reading Newspapers and discussing politics. Perhaps, at first are allowed to and women, but eventually began to take shape exactly gentlemen’s clubs. By the way, there was allowed gambling forbidden in other places. So, paradoxically, the “culture of drinking” influenced the development of culture of political struggle in England.”
