Worries about losing one's femininity make menopause an especially trying time for women. Many have come to regard hormone therapy as a panacea for such troubles, but this attitude is anathema to Liu Chung-tung and many other women's studies specialists.
因為怕自己「不再是女人」，更年期成了女性的煎熬，其間情緒的起伏和沮喪，有時遠超過造物主原本的設計。在這種情況下，荷爾蒙又成了萬靈丹，而這正是劉仲冬等女性學學者特別不能接受的。