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> you are not arguing in good faith, but rather, building a strawman. First strawman is not the word here anyway. That would mean I misrepresent others to make
by skinkestek 5y ago
> you are not arguing in good faith, but rather, building a strawman.
First strawman is not the word here anyway. That would mean I misrepresent others to make it easier to knock down their arguments.
That said, I'm not a native speaker and it probably affects the quality of my arguments.
I'll try to rephrase it as a thought experiment:
If one ask
- a random sampling of men to distance themselves from a tweet that says women should be chained to the kitchen
- and a random sample of women to distance themselves from a #killallmen tweet
how do one think the results would be?
> I'm not going to engage with this style. Thanks.
Your choice, for the benefit of everyone else I answered.
But I think it is unfair to say I argue in bad faith.
- krageon 5y agoYou are arguing a strawman, for the simple reason that the results of this hypothetical would be the same: The average man or woman does not wish murder or slavery on another person. If you live in a social web where this is not the case, that sucks. It's time to get new friends.
- skinkestek 5y agoNo, in fact now you are strawmanning me, creating a dumb version of what I wrote and tearing it down. My point is that among mainstream feminists it is more ok to write even gross hate speech against men (#killallmen) than it is to write even bad jokes about women (they should be chained to the kitchen) amongst not-feminists. I'm not suggesting mainstream feminists conspire to actually kill all men.