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#MeToo wave sweeps Taiwan in long-awaited reckoning

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By Amber WANG

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Ah, MeToo, the movement that got reduced to having to wear high-heeled shoes in Japan. Not that this is an unworthy complaint; only that it so much doesn't deal with the full story that you might imagine it all to have been concocted by old men.

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But activists say the crescendoing wave of #MeToo cases shows gender inequality remains a deep-seated problem, rooted in a culture prone to victim-blaming.

Where have I heard the line about "culture prone to victim-blaming" before?

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Taiwanese politics is famously corrupt and sets the tone for others in power to behave badly no surprise here

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