Cultural critic Ping Lu suggests another reason why there has been little discussion of the "new woman." For a long time, women have been seen as the "long suffering" side of the gender relationship; they do not have some negative image they need to overturn. Of course this does not mean that women should not demand that men change.
文化評論家平路也表示，「新好女人」之所以未見熱烈討論，原因在於，女性長久以來在兩性關係中就是「任勞任怨」的正面角色，並不需要做負面形象的翻轉，但這也不表示女性就不應該有兩性平權的自覺。