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I can only speak for myself. This is all I’m going to say because I do what I do because I believe in it and the more I say the more I feel I have to prove a point.
Women have just as strong a craving for knowledge as do men. I wish more than anything I could bring sources for my hashkafa and halacha, rather than ‘because someone else said so’.
I don’t make a mezuman for the reason stated, that it comes across as feminist and contesting halacha, despite that I learned (I don’t have a source because women are discouraged from learning) that it is just as big an inyan for women to make a mezuman as for men.
But you’re saying that because someone else does it for twisted reasons, it becomes forbidden. Yet, so much of what we hold sacred is practiced by other religions, for reasons of blasphemy or idolatry. Are we to research every voluntary practice to determine if others are doing the same action for tainted reasons?