Asian entertainment industries grappling with #MeToo issues

In this May 21, 2019, photo actress Wu Ke-xi poses for portrait photographs at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France. Wu Ke-xi wrote a screenplay inspired by the scandal involving U.S. producer Harvey Weinstein. The #MeToo movement in entertainment isn't just an American phenomenon. Cases across Asia show the region is grappling with many of the same issues that have upended entertainment careers in the U.S.

“After 2017, after the year the Harvey Weinstein stuff occurred, I read a lot of documents and interviews. I was so purely curious about what happened,” said Wu. She said she has been threatened in her career, but never sexually assaulted. “It’s still a humiliating experience,” she said.Asia is having its own #MeToo moment, with its homegrown entertainment industries grappling with many of the issues that have upended entertainment careers in the United States and beyond.

“Fear runs down the spine of everyone, thinking that, ‘Oh my God, maybe I’ve done something in the past that might come back to bite me,’” he said.“Nobody can do it for her. Nobody can out her story and put her in a position that maybe she doesn’t want to be in,” he said. “But when she does, then it’s important that people rally around her so that she feels she’s done the right thing.

“I’ve actually been lucky because Zhu Jun is well-known,” Zhou said. “It’s extremely difficult for women who have been assaulted by their friends, colleagues or partners to seek legal recourse.” “I told myself that, ‘Yes, this was not my fault and that I should not be ashamed at all,’” she said.

Useless , Chinese government will block all the post and take them to jail

I pray they can keep their movement from becoming a monster like ours....

Unfortunately, women being abused and mistreated has been prevalent since the beginning of time or at the very least since where men are in power and where women are seen as a lesser 2nd class of citizen. Happy to hear women are coming out of the darkness to tell their -1

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