“Wave Makers”, a Netflix series, has inspired real women in Taiwan to stand up for themselves
This conceit means that the focus is on domestic issues rather than grand matters of national identity or the. Drawing on deep research and interviews, the show zooms in on the sacrifices women are asked to make for supposedly important causes. It tells a hopeful story of one character standing up for another—and, in a feedback loop between life and art, it has inspired real women in Taiwan to stand up for themselves.and morality.
When she discovers that a young member of the campaign team, Chang Ya-ching , is being asked to “let things go” for the sake of the party’s image, she insists that they fight back. Chang has fled from an affair with her former boss, a slick politician now running for vice-president with the right-wing party. He has astick full of naked photos, which he uses to harass and control Chang and others. After Chang is molested by another man in her new job, Weng urges her to report it.
A cascade of #MeToo testimonies followed. Within a fortnight scores of allegations of sexual harassment were made against members of all the island’s main political parties. The wave of accusations took in prominent academics, doctors, musicians, writers, artists, diplomats and exiled Chinese dissidents.
In the past, Ms Chien says, it was especially hard for women to speak up if an offence occurred in an organisation meant to serve a noble cause, whether that was artistic, political or the security of a place that sees itself as the idealised foil of a big bully: “They always make you think about the greater interest and swallow it.” Today Taiwan is entering aand faces a military threat from China.
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