Originally Posted by Matt-ADX

Dude, it may have been like that in the past and maybe it is like that in some chapters, but where I live it's clearly a dying old men's club. At the end of a lunch, which I was invited to attend and my ticket was paid for by the ''sponsor'' (some old guy who got my email inquiry) I was handed an envelope with an application and some more information. Maybe I would have to be vetted or something but the impression I got was that they need fresh members and don't say no to really anyone. I was unimpressed and felt far out of my element because they were all in their late 50's and 60's so I decided to go no further.

It wasn't a secret meeting it was a lunch they had and asked some other members to be speakers, the speakers were businessmen and they talked about their companies and how they began etc..

He didn't say ''hey you join now?'' he asked if I was interested in joining and handed me the envelope. Seriously I donno why you defending this so hard, do you want to pretend its exclusive? Because where I live it really isn't in fact it was pretty sad state of affairs from what I saw.