After Bold Women was published under her name, she got a stack of responses from men who said that "action was better than talk." Some of the anonymous letters she got were simply too filthy to read. And a bookstore owner notes that many women brought Bold Women to the check-out counter hidden in a pile of "decent" books.
以何春蕤為例，當《豪爽女人》論述出版後，便收到不少要她「立而言不如『躺而行』」，想要進一步欣賞她的「爽態美」之類不堪入目的匿名信；而據書店老闆表示，不少女性在購買《豪爽女人》時，常常會與其他「大雅之書」挾帶算帳。