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The strategy recalls the one favored by a 19th-century doctor who believed that reading novels caused hysteria in women: He counseled men to confiscate their wives’ fiction and replace it with a book on “some practical subject,” like “beekeeping.”

We know now how these strategies can backfire. The 19th-century husband was trying to protect his wife, but he angered her, and now she can control bees.