Yu, who wears her hair short in classic "Awakening" fashion, gives a wry smile as she recalls that "many people thought that the only women in the movement were from broken marriages or were abandoned, or else they were mannish or unattractive .... And it was not only men who besmirched us like this, a lot of women thought the same way."
留著標準婦女新知式的一頭短髮的尤美女，回想起來仍然啼笑皆非：「很多人認定，去搞婦運的女人都是家庭破裂的、被遺棄的；要不就是男人婆、醜女多作怪… …。不光男性這樣醜化我們，連許多女性也這樣想。」