Who cares that an elite organisation full of mostly elderly white men has decided to allow women to join them in a small central London private members’ club? Such was the reaction of many of the club’s members who had responded with extreme ill-temper to the Guardian’s recent decision to publish the names of about 60 of the Garrick Club’s most influential members. There has been an orgy of mansplaining in newspaper comment pieces. The Garrick’s rules prohibit networking or even working inside the building, these members say, so it would be very wrong-headed and silly to believe that anything of any consequence ever happens within the club’s four walls. The Garrick is merely a spot for friendly relaxation. “The Garrick Club is not a public body and the whole issue is too unimportant to make a fuss of,” the retired supreme court judge Jonathan Sumption admonished a New York Times reporter when the issue piqued the interest of US readers – though he added that he supported the admission of women. “This is such …