🇹🇼 How is Taiwan's #MeToo changing attitudes on sexual harassment? | The Stream

Sparked by a Netflix drama about a sexual harassment scandal, Taiwan's ongoing wave of #MeToo accusations has forced society to confront issues of sexism and how it treats abuse victims who make their cases public.

Since May, high-ranking politicians, academic figures, actors and celebrities have been entangled in #MeToo scandals, with some of the accused attempting to reclaim the narrative from alleged victims.

Some harassment victims have said they were inspired to speak out after watching the Taiwanese Netflix drama “Wave Makers”, which deals with a sexual harassment scandal among political campaign workers in a fictionalised version of the country’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen said her administration will take action to combat sexual harassment. “Our society as a whole must educate ourselves again,” wrote Tsai in a June 6 Facebook post. “The people who have been sexually harassed are victims, not troublemakers. These are people we want to protect, not treat with prejudice.”

This month a special session of the Legislative Yuan will debate proposed amendments to Taiwan's laws regarding sexual harassment prevention and gender equality.

Although Taiwan is known as one of Asia's most progressive societies, its #MeToo movement has shown how patriarchal attitudes and a culture of silence regarding harassment can persist in workplaces and institutions. Activists say more needs to be done to address gender biases that can deter sexual harassment victims from speaking out.

In this episode of The Stream, we'll discuss the impact the #MeToo movement is having in Taiwan.

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[ArabicReja]

It doesn't matter how many times the Chinese regime repeats the *lies, *
- Taiwan 🇹🇼 is still a sovereign country.

[nexusyang]

And it all started from a Netflix show...

[lastChang]

China 🇨🇳 has Peng Shuai. But Zhang Gaoli is still walking freely.

[TheTruth-wjfl]

This is just how an empty and morally devoid society behaves. The best they can do is engage in some sort of absurd rule setting dictated by subjective views of life emanating from feminists and other trend riding groups. this havoc will ultimately come up with impractical and short lived solutions.

[accountantthe]

Has little Brian here enlisted for ROC army service yet? Or does he want others to do the fighting for him?

[fZmass]

You should also bring Eritrean commentators and activists on the events that are unfolding recently. How can you not give attention to such major issue.

[samsonsoturian]

Does Qatar have a MeToo movement or are they dead?

[carekindnessforallmankindm]

The world should learn to respect women. The situation is deplorable in developed countries.

[DC-sgje]

What the heck. They are not speaking out and they wanted to cover it

[CHMichael]

That sounds like a Asian culture problem. We had a few stories from China that ofcause disappeared very quickly ( without the tennis community doing anything)
I think I remember similar events from Japan.
At the end everyone smiles for the camera and the world moves on. This is going to be the same.

[caleighclark]

I wish there was somewhere i could go to feel genuinely safe but i realize i will never be safe in this world as long as I am a