You think they don't fear women and poor people?
Come on...
Cmon Cheif you're using a place of social gathering and entertainment as a similarity to a place of refuge. They are completely different things and you're clutching at straws just to point out how horrible mens clubs are.
Whatever your view of them is irrelevant because even if they could be used as a safe space they were / are certainly not designed that way.
That would be like me saying I'm off to the pub to escape a local I don't get along with but you and I and everyone else knows that pubs weren't designed for that purpose.