Of course, most meetings are "closed" and some are "open" for friends, family, etc. but as I said, again this is a reason given to me that I've encouraged go to AA for help - that they simply believe that is not for them. One woman refused to go after finding out her sponsor had to be a woman and also that she thought most of those attending a meeting "were not in her 'socio-economic' strata."
I suggested she try going to another meeting or even more until she felt she was "among her peers!" I also suggested that her desire to have a male sponsor just might be a way to flirt and find another partner to drink with, as that's what got her in to problems in the first place.
Please accept my apologies.
I mistook your post to be from the perspective of one so devoted to AA they can not permit the program to be questioned without abusing the questioner.
Again, my most sincere apologies.