In fact, Ned was wearing Norah down, and she began to fall into a deep depression. "I suspect people will go into this thinking oh, it’s written by a lesbian, she’s going to be male-bashing all the way down the line," Vincent said during a phone interview. "But my experience was one that made me feel very vulnerable and made me feel a lot of pain and difficulty. While all of us in the post-feminist movement are convinced that women have always had it worse and men have always had it better, it took me stepping into their shoes to realize that that’s not true at all."