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Um, no not at all. That’s not what he is saying in the pull quote you posted.
He is saying that if a shul does build a מחיצה that is kosher, the fact that someone may choose on purpose to stare at the women is not our problem. A man always has a חיוב to watch his eyes and can’t pass it off by saying build a better מחיצה so I won’t be able to look.
ואם יש מי שיעבור ויסתכל בכוונה
That’s from your quote
That means that on purpose the man is looking.
Here we are discussing the fact that when I go to my local grocery store there are ostensibly religious women dressed in a decidedly אסור mode.
They are for the most part
מזידים
מחטיאי הרבים
ועתידין ליתן את הדין
מרחקים הקב”ה ממחנינו
No they have no right to say don’t look.
R Moshe is talking about one who is trying to look
I am talking about placing a stumbling block in front of someone trying not to look.
I guess that except for the fact that they are totally opposite, they are the same