However, just as she was getting started, Lu was arrested and imprisoned after the "Kaohsiung incident." Though Lu was sent to prison for her activities in the political opposition rather than for her feminism per se, talk of women's rights became, if anything, even more taboo than before she was silenced by prison walls.
不過婦女運動曙光乍現，旋即又因為呂秀蓮捲入「美麗島事件」、被捕入獄而沈寂下來，甚至較以往更成禁忌。