Things that make me go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

It seems that a number of modern poskim think that women shouldl daven simply for the sake of fulfilling the mitzva, and ignore any kavvanah or extra ahavat Hashem that may be gleaned. Why do I say that? Allow me to quote Rabbi Bleich:

Many participants in women's minyanim speak and write movingly of the religious experience such participation brings them. Presumably, some may argue that the religious experience in which they share is sufficient reason to sacrifice the incontrovertible advantages of tefillah be-zibbur. That position is predicated upon a fundamental error - if not an error of Halakha, then an error of hashkafa or religious perspective.
Let these comments not be understood as denigrating the value of religious experience. Kavanah (devotion) is certainy a form of religious experience and its value cannot be extolled too greatly. But Judaism recognizes a hierarchy of values and kavanah, deveikut, religious experience or "attachment," desirable and laudable as it may be, should never be permitted to supplant other values. The fulfillment of a mizvah in an optimal manner , albeit without extraordinary kavanah, is to be favored over less optimal fulfillment accompanied by fervent religious experience.
R. Chaim of Volozhin, Nefesh ha-Hayyim, sha'ar I, chapter 22, makes this point most eloquently. One who eats mazah on Pesah, or lifts the four species on Sukkot  but experiences absolutely nothing that can be described as uplifting or spiritually edifying has nonetheless fulfilled a Divine command; his act has cosmic ramifications and he will receive great reward. ...

If your davening is missing something, something that would be remedied by gathering with other women every so often to daven as a group, do it.  Otherwise, if it's missing something and you can't do the very thing that allows you to connect, why will you keep davening? If you are here to be an automaton who simply fulfills everything perfectly and never acheives connection to God, what is the point of it all? And why, other then because you're a masochist, would you stay in that system?

I think sometimes that men have *so much* access that they can't quite imagine the lack of access there is for so many of the women. We who share so much have very different experiences from the second we step foot into shul.  Maybe men should have to spend one month a year not allowed to do anything women aren't supposed to do, just to get a sense of what it's like across the mehiza.