Sam2 -“42: What’s that from? It’s a good Sikkum but I don’t like the part in there about women not fasting not being done without direction of a Rav. It ignores the fact that there is a very strong Minhag that is still prevalent in many places for women not to fast the minor fasts. It might be against the Shulchan Aruch, but this Minhag is older than that and therefore isn’t overriden by the SH”A.”
Again you repeat the same thing you wrote above.
Do you have any proof that this was a real Minhag, instead of a Minhag Shtus?
Also, do you have any proof that this “Minhag” preceded the S’A?