It should affect us, because if you read the interview, you’ll see some of the things she mentions are 100% correct. People are jumping to accept the chumrah of the month, not thinking of the effect it might have. Buses separated for men and women? R’ Moshe Feinstein zt”l wrote in the Igros that l’chatchila you can sit next to a woman on a bus or subway – and he didn’t mean a frum woman dressed properly, he meant a non-Jewish woman.
Women not allowed to walk on the street after a certain time at night? What is this, Nazi Germany, where people weren’t allowed out at night? Why shouldn’t women be allowed out?
The fact is that some people are so eager to appear more and more frum that they lose sight of the big picture. Some of these chumros have no real basis, and they create a huge chillul Hashem, and drive people off the derech.
edited. You can opine they have no real basis if you wish, that is a halachic point. You cannot say they are pointless- that is a lie and you know it. You know there is a point, you just don’t agree with it. Say that.