“Most women have never learned Mishna Berura. ”
“True, but Joseph’s comment was about the typical frum household, which usually isnt just women.”
There are a lot of single, divorced, and widowed women. If you also add in women who are married to men who do not have a Yeshiva background, that includes a lot of people. Furthermore, even if someone is married, her husband isn’t necessary around or available when the sheila arises. And when Joseph wrote “household”, I thought he was referring to all of the members of the household.
“The discussion is about “typical frum homes” I grant there are some who cannot read a Mishne Berura but It is fair to say the “Typical” product of a yeshiva system can.”
There are a lot of people who think they can understand things that they can’t. I have often noticed posters in the CR thinking that someone wrote something that they didn’t write. And this is in english. And it’s not that they realized that they didn’t understand what the person wrote – they were positive that the person had written something that they hadn’t. So what happens if the same person is convinced that he knows what the MB is saying, and in fact, he doesn’t?
(and just in case anyone thinks I am thinking about them specifically, I am thinking of several posters, and not one specific one)