{"id":57381,"date":"2023-08-09T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/09\/taiwans-metoo-movement-has-enmeshed-politicians-and-celebrities-but-a-culture-of-silence-endures"},"modified":"2023-08-09T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T23:24:13","slug":"taiwans-metoo-movement-has-enmeshed-politicians-and-celebrities-but-a-culture-of-silence-endures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57381","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s MeToo movement has enmeshed politicians and celebrities &#8211; but a culture of silence endures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament has strengthened three laws on harassment and abuse but activists say deference to elders is holding back progress<\/p>\n<p>When Judy* saw the wave of MeToo accusations filling her newsfeeds, her first thought was \u201cfinally\u201d. She had long hoped that Taiwan would join the pushback against sexual harassment and abuse that first exploded overseas half a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and lots of my friends have faced sexual harassment, and even worse situations before,\u201d Judy tells the Guardian in Taipei. \u201cFinally we started to have some focus on this topic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/09\/taiwans-metoo-movement-has-enmeshed-politicians-and-celebrities-but-a-culture-of-silence-endures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament has strengthened three laws on harassment and abuse but activists say deference to elders is holding back progressWhen Judy* saw the wave of MeToo accusations filling her newsfeeds, her first thought was \u201cfinally\u201d. She had long hoped that Ta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,74,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57406,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57381\/revisions\/57406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}