PBA: There is no good reason to be Mechalek. I think, according to that, if a man knows he’ll mess up he shouldn’t count with a Bracha either. The Mishnah B’rurah just assumed that most men don’t mess up. Also, the number of women who knew Hebrew (or how to count) were very few and far between in that time. If I held like that Sha’arei T’shuvah we quoted above I would tell a man who knows he’ll mess up not to count with a B’racha.
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