Should the Garrick Club admit women?

HAVING read last Thursday (Mail) about high-profile figures threatening to leave the Garrick Club unless it admits women as members, I am confused.

Why would a woman want to join a men-only club; and why would a man join, then petition for women to join too? Have these people never heard of a pub? r. GlASS, Bolton, lancs.

THE Garrick was founded in 1831 as a club for gentlemen only. As it has a ten-year waiting list, would women wishing to join be happy to wait patiently for a decade?

C. riChArdSON, thorpe Bay, essex.

STEPHEN Fry and Sting have threatened to resign from the Garrick Club if it doesn’t vote to allow women members.

Those wishing to keep it as a menonly space must be delighted by this news. Sting and Mr Fry both knew it was a men only-club when they joined, so I suggest the pompous pair should resign or be excluded.

eriC CrAGGS, Shildon, Co durham.

FUNNY how those Garrick members who want to admit women were all quite happy to join a men-only club before their outpouring of faux outrage.

They seem to have changed their tune because of work relationships ‘Pompous’: Sting, left, and Stephen Fry want women in the Garrick Club with women outside the club: quite frankly it all sounds a bit like blackmail. Will they now be campaigning for men to be admitted to women-only clubs too?

MiKe hOrdyNSKi, Olney, Bucks.

IF BEING a Garrick Club member impedes a man’s relationship with female artists, producers, etc, he should resign.

Seeking to change the membership criteria is wanting the best of both worlds. deS MOrGAN, Swindon, Wilts.

STING and Stephen Fry can leave whenever they choose. There are other clubs where they may feel more at ease with the constitution.

rON WAllACe, St Neots, Cambs.

IF STING and Stephen Fry resign from the Garrick, I’ll apply to join.

B. QUelCh, Bognor regis, W. Sussex.