Where tongue? In cheek!

I am sorry to say that I consider it unfortunate that women can be led astray and be led into going along with wholly unfounded beliefs; merely in the hope of achieving some style without the efforts of exercise and diet.

As a reader myself I am aware of the risks and have made an informed decision to run them (although I gave up smoking many years ago). But the information women require can easily be obtained in pictorial form, thus avoiding any risk to them.
Having said that I nevertheless feel that perhaps there are others who overstate the case and may possibly take a step or two too far. There is no need for a death sentence for a woman who is merely misguided in her belief that the fairer sex should be permitted to learn to read.After all the vast majority of girls come to realise, at an early age, that there are many ways forward that do not require the struggle to learn to read.
The stress of reading leads many ladies astray and into bad habits (that's the bleached hair and the cigarettes, the booze is quite acceptable, naturally). Worse is that the feminine traits of kindness and compassion can be destroyed and instead, as seen in this poster from the First World War, they can become quite demonical.