They been pushing this on us since we were kids and I never realized it
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Not really. There are many men's only fraternities that have existed for ages.
Post WWII, nearly everyone was involved in some kind of club. But it was more for social reasons - my mom called them drinking clubs, because that was a lot of it. I have seen pics of my grandparents post-war and there are whiskey bottles all over those tables.
Also, I don't think people consider that restaurants were not as prolific at the time these clubs were at their height. Going to a restaurant was considered something special. No internet, TV limited - I am old enough to remember when movies would stay in a theater for months at a time. People actually had to make the effort. We may have a plethora of options and technology, but in some ways, they were a lot better off than we are.
Don't forget that back then, DWI wasn't a death sentence. In 1972 I lost my best friend to a drunk driver, it was the 72nd time the asshole had been stopped while drunk. MADD killed off the fraternal organizations when they got stricter laws passed, hard to get to the meetings without a driver's license.
Very true. And sorry about your friend. 72 times is inexcusable.
And whats the point in going if you cant drink and then drive home?
A book called Bowling Alone came out a few years ago connecting the demise of those social clubs to a lot of the social problems we see now.
That's not what I mean. Local colleges have fraternities - which happens to be how the Loyal Order of Water Buffalos was depicted in the Flintstones- as a bunch of frat bros.
I would wager that the Catholic church borrows more from the Babylonian customs, while Masonic customs were adapted partially from Egyptian and Greek philosophies.
Your just butthurt they wont take you.
And this is specifically supposed to be Masonic. Not some mens club. Free masons arent only men either.
How do you figure it's specifically masonic? And what is your source claiming there are female freemasons?
Idk maybe the apron thing theyre wearing with the all seeing eye right on it? Look into the hidden hand and the all seeing eye in free masonry. Theres all kinds of powerful people in the masons and they all show their little hand signals to show each other theyre a mason.
But my point was that the images above are not from the Flintstones television show. It is a meme created with superimposed Masonic imagery.
They are only men but anyone can play pretend