Charliehall: I’m hardly misquoting: “And that is pretty irrelevant to torah study because women are obligated in all but about a dozen mitzvot from the torah. It is not an “optional mitzvah” for women to learn torah.”
If you do indeed agree that it’s optional, then may I ask why are the women in your neighborhood spending their precious time studying Gemora; in their intention to do God’s will, or is it merely to perpetuate their feminist agenda and show their independence from the Frum establishment? If the latter is correct, then their studying has no spiritual value and will never lead to having any spiritual meaning to them.